Stuck again on submodules

Jan Stolarek jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl
Thu May 9 14:20:40 CEST 2013


Does this help:

git submodule update libraries/Cabal/

?

Janek



Dnia czwartek, 9 maja 2013, Simon Peyton-Jones napisał:
> Help!  I can't build ghc!
>
> I get this
> utils/ghc-pkg/Main.hs:1160:24:
>     Not in scope: `showSimpleInstalledPackageInfoField'
>     Perhaps you meant `showInstalledPackageInfoField' (imported from
> Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo)
>
> And indeed, my libraries/Cabal is way behind
>
> simonpj at cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD$ cd libraries/Cabal
> simonpj at cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD/libraries/Cabal$ git log -1
> commit 14c5a3f78c00772cf54c2fd5c920a64d53e6f594
> Author: Gabor Greif <ggreif at gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Mar 20 22:27:15 2013 +0100
>
>             Fix typos
>
> "git submodule status" says
> 14c5a3f78c00772cf54c2fd5c920a64d53e6f594 libraries/Cabal
> (1_10_branch_forked-1682-g14c5a3f) 1f9f7175e747aad7c424f5b12be5b95f15286f0b
> libraries/Win32 (2009-06-25-50-g1f9f717) ...etc
>
> In another tree entirely "git submodule status" says
>   b4d0c0... libraries/Cabal
> which looks right, because that commit does futz with
> showInstalledPackageInfoField.
>
> So it looks as if my main GHC repo somehow has the wrong commit for Cabal. 
> How do I make it right?
>
> This is so frustrating.  Thanks
>
> Simon





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