[Haskell-cafe] test driving cabal install... cabal install and normal install (runghc Setup) don't mix... two package.conf files...

[Thomas Hartman]

I think the reason it took longer to build HAppS-Server is that
previously, when I was installing the MyProject example from happs.org
I was using searchpath.

I guess searchpath doesn't compile every single haskell module,
whereas runghc Setup build and cabal install does.

2008/5/29 Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu>:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:11:04PM -0700, Thomas Hartman wrote:
>> After a little drama with zlib, I managed to get cabal-install installed.
>>
>> I then attempted to do
>>
>> cabal install HAppS-Server
>>
>> since this is a module with a lot of dependencies, and in rapid
>> development flux, so perenially painful for me to install.
>>
>> The result is that I managed to install everything up to HAppS-State,
>> which I think is the last dependency, but then seemed to hang
>> indefinitely in the middle of installing HAppS-Server at the end.
>>
>> OK, I thought, then perhaps I can do normal runghc Setup.hs after
>> downloading and unzipping the tar from
>>
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HAppS-Server-0.9.2.1
>>
>> However, this resulted in error
>>
>> thartman at thartman-laptop:~/haskellInstalls/smallInstalls/HAppS-Server-0.9.2.1>runghc
>> Setup.hs configure
>> ...
>> Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>> HAppS-Data >=0.9.2...
>>
>> Strange, because I had just installed that module via cabal-install,
>> and I could load it in ghci with :m +HappS.Data.
>
> 'cabal install' installs packages to your user database by default.  However,
> 'Setup configure' only uses packages from the global database unless the --user
> flag is passed.
>
>> I then ran ghc-pkg and got this strange result that my packages were
>> broken into two different files. Is this by design?
>>
>> ghc-pkg list
>> /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf:
>>     Cabal-1.2.3.0, Cabal-1.3.11, Cabal-1.5.2, DeepArrow-0.2,
>> ....
>> /home/thartman/.ghc/i386-linux-6.8.2/package.conf:
>>     HAppS-Data-0.9.2.1, HAppS-IxSet-0.9.2.1, HAppS-State-0.9.2.1,
>
> Yep, this is by design.  The first is a global database that will require root
> access to modify.  The second is your user database which you can modify
> without root access.
>
>> I am curious if anybody else is able to install HAppS-Server using
>> cabal install, and whether they can shed any light on the other isuses
>> I raised.
>>
>> Thomas.
>
> I tried building HAppS-server the other day, and had a similar experience.  It
> seems that HAppS uses some incredibly elaborate TH/typeclass hacks that take
> gobs of resources to compile -- my box actually ran out of memory attempting to
> build it.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Spencer Janssen
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