[Haskell-cafe] cabal probems with binary/containers packages

[brian]

Just found the following file:

.ghc/powerpc-darwin-6.10.1/pkg-config

and it is referring to 0.5.0.1.

Is there anyway to regenerate the file, or is it broken because of a  
problem with the package ?

Thanks,

Brian

On Oct 28, 2009, at 4:00 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 21:37 -0700, brian wrote:
>> It all started with this:
>>
>> Loading package binary-0.5.0.1 ... can't load .so/.DLL for:
>> HSbinary-0.5.0.1 (dlopen(libHSbinary-0.5.0.1.dylib, 9): image not  
>> found)
>>
>> so I tried
>>
>>> cabal upgrade binary
>
> Don't do that. Just use cabal install binary.
>
> Upgrade means install the named package and also try to install the
> latest version of all of its dependencies. That's generally not a good
> idea. It's choosing to upgrade your containers package and you  
> probably
> do not want to do that.
>
> We're thinking about how to changing the behaviour of upgrade so that
> you can upgrade the dependencies you want without also upgrading the
> ones that you really wanted to be kept the same (like the core or
> perhaps even the platform libs).
>
>> Building containers-0.2.0.1...
>>
>> Data/IntMap.hs:182:7:
>>     Could not find module `Data.Data':
>>       it is a member of package base, which is hidden
>
> This is because the containers packages doesn't say that it needs base
> version 4. In fact it doesn't say what version it needs at all.
>
> Duncan