[Haskell-cafe] .a files not found

[mantkiew at gsd.uwaterloo.ca]

The location is not that ‎important. In any folder where cabal install fails, I can do cabal get + cabal install and it works. So it's probably related to cabal's own temp folder names which get too long.

Michal

  Original Message  
From: Henk-Jan van Tuyl
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2015 1:04 PM
To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org; Matej Borovec
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] .a files not found


That works!

Thanks,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


On Sat, 30 May 2015 18:45:00 +0200, Matej Borovec 
<matej.borovec at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Try this for every package:
>
> mkdir c:\temp
> cd c:\temp
> cabal unpack data-default-instances-base
> cabal install ./data-default-instances-base
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Henk-Jan van Tuyl
> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2015 11:39 AM
> To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] .a files not found
>
>
> L.S.,
>
> I get messages about .a files not being found, when I try to install
> package data-default-instances-base, data-default-instances-containers,
> data-default-instances-dlist or data-default-instances-old-locale. How 
> can
> I solve this? I am using GHC 7.10.1 on Windows.
>
> Sample output:
>
> C:\X\data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1> cabal install
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1...
> Building data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1...
> Failed to install data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1
> Build log (
> C:\Users\X\AppData\Roaming\cabal\logs\data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1.log
> ):
> Building data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1...
> Preprocessing library data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1...
> [1 of 1] Compiling Data.Default.Instances.OldLocale (
> Data\Default\Instances\OldLocale.hs,
> dist\build\Data\Default\Instances\OldLocale.o )
> C:\Programs\Haskell\MinGHC-7.10.1\ghc-7.10.1\mingw\bin\ar.exe:
> dist\build\libHSdata-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1-6jcjjaR25tK4x3nJhHHjFM.a-2192\libHSdata-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1-6jcjjaR25tK4x3nJhHHjFM.a:
> No such file or directory
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1 failed during the building phase.
> The
> exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
>
> Regards,
> Henk-Jan van Tuyl
>
>



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