[Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit

[Erik Hesselink]

Hi Martijn,

Yes, upgrading will obviously fix things (we do use 0.14 on our
development machines), but we have not set up any infrastructure for
building a custom cabal on production servers. We just use the one
from the Ubuntu repositories, which uses Cabal 1.10.1.0 on oneiric. So
until we upgrade to precise I guess we have a problem.

Erik

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Martijn Schrage <martijn at oblomov.com> wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> A similar thing happened to me with the GraphViz package. As Duncan
> explained to me, the problem is that Cabal-1.10.0.0 (and I believe also
> 1.10.1.0) incorrectly reports an error when conditionals are used in test
> suites.
>
> Upgrading to Cabal-1.10.2.0 (or cabal-install-0.14.0 with Cabal-1.14.0)
> should fix the problem. Unfortunately, this means your build will not work
> on a fresh Haskell Platform v2012.2.0.0, until HUnit is patched in the
> hackage index.
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn Schrage -- Oblomov Systems (http://www.oblomov.com)
>
>
>
> On 18-07-12 16:26, Erik Hesselink wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> All cabal installs using cabal-install-0.10.2 are currently failing
>> for us. This is due to the cabal file for HUnit-1.2.5.0, which was
>> recently uploaded to hackage. The ouput I'm getting from cabal is
>> just:
>>
>> Reading available packages...
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> cabal: Couldn't read cabal file "HUnit/1.2.5.0/HUnit.cabal"
>>
>> If I unpack HUnit-1.2.5.0 and call 'cabal configure', I get:
>>
>> cabal: HUnit.cabal:57: The 'type' field is required for test suites. The
>> available test types are: exitcode-stdio-1.0
>>
>> The relevant lines from the cabal file are:
>>
>> Test-Suite hunit-tests-optimize-0
>>      Type:               exitcode-stdio-1.0
>>
>> These look fine to me.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea how to go about fixing this (on hackage at
>> least)? Could this package temporarily be removed, to avoid breaking
>> everyone's cabal?
>>
>> Erik
>>
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