[Haskell-cafe] Installing grapefruit: "lexical error at character 'i'"

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

In my experience that is a

#if xxx

without CPP enabled

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I am trying to install grapefruit on Kubuntu 14.04. Most of the
> dependencies seemed to install without incident, but I am running into the
> following error:
>
>   jeff at jeff-Lenovo:~$ cabal install grapefruit-ui-gtk grapefruit-examples
>   Resolving dependencies...
>   Configuring grapefruit-ui-0.1.0.5...
>   Building grapefruit-ui-0.1.0.5...
>   Preprocessing library grapefruit-ui-0.1.0.5...
>   src/Internal/UIItem.hs-boot:12:2: lexical error at character 'i'
>   Failed to install grapefruit-ui-0.1.0.5
>   cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>   grapefruit-examples-0.1.0.5 depends on grapefruit-ui-0.1.0.5 which
> failed to
>   install.
>   grapefruit-ui-0.1.0.5 failed during the building phase. The exception
> was:
>   ExitFailure 1
>   grapefruit-ui-gtk-0.1.0.5 depends on grapefruit-ui-0.1.0.5 which failed
> to
>   install.
>   jeff at jeff-Lenovo:~$
>
> I wanted to find the offending 'i' character, but the file
> "src/Internal/UIItem.hs-boot" I was unable to find anywhere:
>   jeff at jeff-Lenovo:/$ pwd
>   /
>   jeff at jeff-Lenovo:/$ sudo find . -name *UIItem.hs*
>   [sudo] password for jeff:
>   jeff at jeff-Lenovo:/$
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
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