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

[Jeffrey Brown]

Ah, of course. Thanks, Alexey!

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Alexey Shmalko <rasen.dubi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Probably, the best solution in this case (and most similar cases) is
> to send patch to upstream. I believe, grapefruit maintainers will be
> glad to see it.
>
> As far as I know, you can open a bug at
> http://trac.haskell.org/grapefruit/. Mailing list is also a nice place
> to try: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grapefruit
>
> Regards,
> Alexey
>
> 2015-01-06 1:08 GMT+02:00 Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>:
> > Regarding replacing the boot-file, I thought I could delete the original
> > .tar.gz file and replace it with one of my own. But that seems like it
> would
> > only be a temporary fix -- would Cabal not discard that for a newer one
> > every time I update, thus bringing back the problem?
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I did not realize UIItem.hs and UIItem.hs-boot were separate things; I
> >> thank Matthew Pickering for pointing out that potential error in a
> private
> >> message.
> >>
> >> It looks like Alan or Kim was right: the 12th line of the boot file
> reads
> >> "#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,7,0)", and the file contains no mention of CPP.
> I am
> >> left with two questions:
> >>
> >> How to enable CPP?
> >> ------------------
> >> Do I just include the following liine at the top of the boot file?
> >> {-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}
> >>
> >> How to replace the boot file?
> >> -----------------------------
> >> In my hackage.haskell.org folder there are a lot of subfolders named
> after
> >> Haskell libraries -- arrows, cairo, etc. Almost every one of those
> includes
> >> in turn a single folder with a version number, and within that a .tar.gz
> >> file. In order to find the error you all helped me locate, I
> uncompressed
> >> the .tar.gz file in the grapefruit-ui folder. I could alter that
> object, but
> >> that does not seem likely to help, because I would not be altering the
> data
> >> that Haskell actually uses.
> >>
> >> Thanks! This is exciting!
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks guys!
> >>>
> >>> I found the library, though, as a .tar.gz file under
> >>> /home/jeff/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/grapefruit-ui/0.1.0.5,
> and
> >>> when I uncompressed that, found the UIItem file.
> >>>
> >>> I can't find the offending character in it, though. Supposedly it was
> at
> >>> position 12.2 (line 12, column 2, right?), but I only see whitespace
> there.
> >>> The first few lines of it are these ("module" being the first word of
> the
> >>> first line):
> >>>
> >>> module Internal.UIItem (
> >>>
> >>>     -- * User interface items in general
> >>>     UIItem (UIItem),
> >>>     item,
> >>>
> >>>     -- * Bricks
> >>>     Brick,
> >>>     brick,
> >>>     just,
> >>>
> >>>     -- * Boxes
> >>>     Box,
> >>>     box,
> >>>     with,
> >>>     With (With),
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Jeffrey Brown <
> jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I wanted to find the offending 'i' character, but the file
> >>>>> "src/Internal/UIItem.hs-boot" I was unable to find anywhere:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> It won't be there, it was removed during cleanup from the failed
> >>>> install. Use "cabal get grapefruit-ui" to get a more permanent copy
> of the
> >>>> source.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine
> >>>> associates
> >>>> allbery.b at gmail.com
> >>>> ballbery at sinenomine.net
> >>>> unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad
> >>>> http://sinenomine.net
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
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