error: Iface type variable out of scope:

[David Roundy]

I've just tried doing the same compile with ghc 6.10, and it doesn't
run into the same issue.  Would you still be interested in a test
case, even though it seems to already be fixed?

David

P.S. This was definitely in a clean tree.  I thought it sounded like
an incorrect .hi file, so I cleaned it again and again (thinking maybe
I hadn't removed the right .hi file).

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Usually this kind of thing indicates a stale .hi file.
>
> If it's stale, but GHC should know, then it's a bug.  But sometimes it happens because file modification times are messed up, or you changed version of GHC or something.
>
> If it happens in a clean tree, it's definitely a bug.
>
> It's not a "known bug" so far as I know, so a reproducible test case would be fantastic.
>
> Oh: use -dcore-lint. That often nails the error much earlier
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> | David Roundy
> | Sent: 15 April 2009 15:02
> | To: cvs-ghc at haskell.org
> | Subject: error: Iface type variable out of scope:
> |
> | Hello ghc folks,
> |
> | I'm getting the following error compiling darcs:
> |
> | [ghc] src/Darcs/Repository/HashedRepo.hs
> | src/Darcs/Patch/Set.hi
> | Declaration for a:
> |   Iface type variable out of scope:  x10s
> | Cannot continue after interface file error
> |
> | This is with the ghc 6.8.2 that is included in ubuntu Hardy Heron.
> | The code is a bit large, and I haven't yet committed the changes that
> | trigger this (since it won't compile), but I thought I'd just check
> | whether this is a known bug before providing a better report.  A
> | googling revealed a bug with the same error message (also revealed by
> | darcs developers) that was in ghc 6.6, but doesn't seem to be related.
> |  In that case, the workaround was to avoid using the GADT syntax.
> |
> | Any suggestions?
> | --
> | David Roundy
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David Roundy