[Haskell-cafe] (re)newcomer

[Jeremy Shaw]

Hello,

It looks like you are using GHC 6.10, which is now a pretty old  
version of GHC.  The latest version of the unix package on hackage  
requires a more recent version of GHC. You could try to force an older  
version of the unix library:

  cabal install happstack-server --constraints 'unix < 2.4'

But you might be better off upgrading to a newer compiler. The easiest  
way would be to install the latest haskell platform for the mac which  
includes GHC 6.12.3,

http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html

Alternatively, you could install GHC 7, which is the latest stable  
version of the compiler. happstack-server from darcs compiles against  
GHC 7. In fact, if you are planning to start new development using  
happstack, I would recommend the darcs version as it is very closed to  
being released and the documentation reflects the darcs version of the  
code.

More information on installing from darcs (which is easy) is here:

http://happstack.com/download

Hope this helps! If you have more questions I am happy to answer them!
- jeremy

p.s. The version of happstack-server on hackage was actually tested  
using GHC 6.10 and OS X, so it should be possible to get it working  
with out too much hacking if you really need GHC 6.10 for some reason.

On Dec 18, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Matthew Fairtlough wrote:

> Hello Haskell-cafers,
>
> I used to teach Haskell (and Clean!) at University level but haven't  
> touched Haskell in years and certainly never used it with a Mac.   
> Now I work in publishing and want to experiment with Haskell's web  
> services and see if I can help set up an open-source system for  
> handling ONIX xml data.
>
> So I tried to install happstack-server (among several other things)  
> and this depends on unix but cabal can't install unix.  Error and  
> diagnostics below as best as I could see to report them.  Any tips/ 
> pointers much appreciated; I'm not sure if this is a bug or where to  
> report it if it is one...
>
> thanks for any help. Matthew.
>
> bash-3.2# cabal install unix
> Resolving dependencies...
> cabal: cannot configure unix-2.4.1.0. It requires base >=4.2 && <4.4
> For the dependency on base >=4.2 && <4.4 there are these packages:
> base-4.2.0.0, base-4.2.0.1, base-4.2.0.2 and base-4.3.0.0. However  
> none of
> them are available.
> base-4.2.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base - 
> any
> base-4.2.0.1 was excluded because of the top level dependency base - 
> any
> base-4.2.0.2 was excluded because of the top level dependency base - 
> any
> base-4.3.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base - 
> any
>
> bash-3.2# uname -a
> Darwin Matthew-Fairtloughs-MacBook-Pro.local 10.5.0 Darwin Kernel  
> Version 10.5.0: Fri Nov  5 23:20:39 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.17~1/ 
> RELEASE_I386 i386
> bash-3.2# port version
> Version: 1.9.2
> bash-3.2# port info haskell-platform
> haskell-platform @2009.2.0.2 (devel, haskell)
>
> Description:          This is the the Haskell Platform: a single,  
> standard
>                      Haskell distribution for every system. The  
> Haskell
>                      Platform is a blessed library and tool suite  
> for Haskell
>                      distilled from Hackage.
> Homepage:             http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
>
> Runtime Dependencies: ghc, hs-platform-cgi, hs-platform-fgl,
>                      hs-platform-editline, hs-platform-GLUT,
>                      hs-platform-haskell-src, hs-platform-html,
>                      hs-platform-HUnit, hs-platform-mtl, hs-platform- 
> network,
>                      hs-platform-OpenGL, hs-platform-parallel,
>                      hs-platform-parsec, hs-platform-QuickCheck,
>                      hs-platform-regex-base, hs-platform-regex-compat,
>                      hs-platform-regex-posix, hs-platform-stm,
>                      hs-platform-time, hs-platform-xhtml, hs- 
> platform-zlib,
>                      hs-platform-HTTP, hs-platform-alex, hs-platform- 
> happy,
>                      hs-platform-cabal
> Platforms:            darwin
> License:              unknown
> Maintainers:          gwright at macports.org
> bash-3.2# cabal -V
> cabal-install version 0.6.2
> using version 1.6.0.3 of the Cabal library
> bash-3.2# cabal info base
> * base             (library)
>    Synopsis:      Basic libraries
>    Latest version available: 4.3.0.0
>    Latest version installed: 4.1.0.0
>    Homepage:      [ Not specified ]
>    Bug reports:   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/newticket?component=libraries/base
>    Description:   This package contains the Prelude and its support  
> libraries,
>                   and a large collection of useful libraries ranging  
> from data
>                   structures to parsing combinators and debugging  
> utilities.
>    License:       BSD3
>    Maintainer:    libraries at haskell.org
>    Source repo:   http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base/
>    Flags:         integer-simple
>    Dependencies:  rts -any, ghc-prim -any, integer-simple -any,
>                   integer-gmp -any
>    Documentation: /opt/local/share/ghc-6.10.4/doc/ghc/libraries/base
>    Cached:        No
>    Modules:
> <long list elided>
>
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