[Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2

[Corey O'Connor]

I suspect CentOS might disable execute permissions on anything under
/tmp.  To verify this just try creating a simple sh script under /tmp
and executing it directly with ./test.sh.

-Corey O'Connor

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Chris Dornan <chris at chrisdornan.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am trying to install cabal-install 0.8.2 with GHC 6.12.1 on a CentOS 5.2
> system and am running up against a ‘ExitFailure 127’ error.
>
>
>
> I can download the package and run ‘cabal install’ inside the package
> directory and all will be fine, but if I let cabal download and install the
> package cabal runs into problems as soon as it tries to configure.
>
>
>
> For example, if I try ‘cabal install permutation --verbose=3’ it finishes
> like this:
>
>
>
> link: done
>
> *** Deleting temp files:
>
> Deleting: /tmp/ghc1324_0/ghc1324_0.lpp
>
> *** Deleting temp dirs:
>
> Deleting: /tmp/ghc1324_0
>
> /tmp/permutation-0.4.132758/permutation-0.4.1/dist/setup/setup configure
>
> --verbose=3 --ghc --prefix=/home/chris/.cabal --user --constraint=base
>
> ==3.0.3.2 --constraint=ghc-prim ==0.2.0.0
>
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>
> permutation-0.4.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>
> ExitFailure 127
>
>
>
> I have tried the same exercise with GHC 6.10.4 with cabal-install 0.8.0 the
> same results.
>
>
>
> I have downloaded the Cabal sources to try and add some instrumentation to
> find out what is going wrong I have yet to succeed.
>
>
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions? Is there an easier way of getting
> cabal-install working on CentOS?
>
>
>
> Any help much appreciated!
>
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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