Alex install failure

[Simon Peyton Jones]

| Then you're another victim of
| 
| https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13945

[Reads ticket].  Blimey.  This looks serious. As in release-blocker (except that we have released).   Why does it only happen with 8.2.1?  The ticket has no how-to-fix plan.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Herbert Valerio Riedel [mailto:hvriedel at gmail.com]
| Sent: 18 August 2017 23:53
| To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
| Cc: Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>; ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
| Subject: Re: Alex install failure
| 
| On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-
| devs at haskell.org> wrote:
| > | Hmm. Here's a shot in the dark: is home home directory mounted via
| > | NFS by any chance?
| >
| > Direct hit!  (for the shot in the dark).  Yes it's NFS mounted I think.
| So what?
| 
| Then you're another victim of
| 
| https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13945
| 
| :-/