Stuck again on submodules

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Afraid not. I'd tried "git submodule update".  The command you give is a no-op; libraries/Cabal is stuck on commit 14c5a3f; and that's what git submodule status says it should be.  But it shouldn't!

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jan Stolarek [mailto:jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl]
| Sent: 09 May 2013 13:21
| To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Subject: Re: Stuck again on submodules
| 
| 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
|