ANN: ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Gregory Wright <gwright at comcast.net> wrote:
>  On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Wouter Swierstra <wss at cs.nott.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > Thanks again for maintaining ghc in macports!
> > >
> > > I tried installing ghc through macports. Unfortunately, the build failed
> > > with the following error message below. I'd be happy to send you a
> complete
> > > log, if you think it would help. Many thanks,
> > >
> > > Wouter
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:296:35: Not in scope: `extraLibraries'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:297:35: Not in scope: `extraGHCiLibraries'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:298:35: Not in scope: `includeDirs'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:299:35: Not in scope: `includes'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:300:35: Not in scope: `hugsOptions'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:301:35: Not in scope: `ccOptions'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:302:35: Not in scope: `ldOptions'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:303:35: Not in scope: `frameworkDirs'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:304:35: Not in scope: `frameworks'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:305:35: Not in scope: `haddockInterfaces'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:306:35: Not in scope: `haddockHTMLs'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:307:34: Not in scope: `depends'
> > >
> > > main/ParsePkgConf.hs:320:43: Not in scope: `depends'
> > > <<ghc: 73406780 bytes, 11 GCs, 759125/1814528 avg/max bytes residency (3
> > > samples), 18M in use, 0.00 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.09 MUT (0.13 elapsed),
> > > 0.06 GC (0.07 elapsed) :ghc>>
> > > make[2]: *** [stage2/main/ParsePkgConf.o] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** [stage2] Error 2
> > > make: *** [bootstrap2] Error 2
> > >
> > > Warning: the following items did not execute (for ghc):
> > > org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot
> > > org.macports.install
> > > Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> > >
> >
> > I got the same error when trying to install ghc 6.8.2 from MacPorts on
> > OS X 10.4.11/Intel. It seems like the stage2 build is picking up the
> > wrong version of Cabal from my user packages left over from a previous
> > GHC 6.8.2 installation. Deleting ~/.ghc fixes the problem. Maybe the
> > GHC build should be changed to make sure that it doesn't use user
> > packages?
> >
> > Björn
> >
>
>  I'll see if I can come up with a patch to the build system that avoids
> this.
>  BTW, what version the Cabal in your user packages?  I was never able to
>  reproduce this myself --- I probably didn't stumble upon the right (i.e., wrong)
>  combination of cabals.

Hmm, unfortunately I have deleted ~/.ghc but it may have been Cabal-1.3.7.

/Bjorn