[Haskell-cafe] Packages all screwed up

[Krzysztof Skrzętnicki]

AFAIK GHC on Windows comes with it's own mingw, but I'm not sure if the
toolchain is complete. But I wouldn't try to reinstall core packages anyway.
They are best picked from installation package.

Best regards,
Krzysztof Skrzętnicki

2011/2/1 Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oqube at gmail.com>

> I started that way but quickly ran into issues about compilers
> toolchain for certain packages: I am on windows and some core packages
> require mingw toolchain.
>
>
> 2011/2/1 Krzysztof Skrzętnicki <gtener at gmail.com>:
> > This is the easiest way conceptually. You can also try to --reinstall
> every
> > package that 'ghc-pkg check' report is broken. If you pick up the right
> > version and compilation options will match there is a high chance you can
> > fix this state. I've done this before and it worked.
> > Best regards,
> > Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 08:16, Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oqube at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> Thanks for your answers.
> >>
> >> I did
> >>
> >> > cabal upgrade yesod
> >>
> >> As for the user/global issue, I think I tried a user install, this is
> >> default isn't it?
> >>
> >> Looks like I will have to reinstall everything :-(
> >>
> >> Arnaud
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Arnaud Bailly <
> arnaud.oqube at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >> I recently tried to upgrade some package (eg. yesod) and it seems
> >> >> that, in the process, I screwed up my Haskell packages setup.
> >> >> When I am trying to do a simple:
> >> >>> ghc --make Crete1941
> >> >
> >> > What command(s) did you issue to "upgrade some packages?"
> >> > Were you trying to do a user or global install?
> >> >
> >> > When ghc loads packages, I've had cases where packages in the user db
> >> > would shadow packages in the global db, causing *other* packages in
> >> > the global db to report as "broken".
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Antoine
> >> >
> >>
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