happs install seems to have become very slow since upgrading cabal Re: [Haskell-cafe] test driving cabal install...

[Thomas Hartman]

It did finish, but I still feel like this took too long.

2008/5/29 Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>:
> sudo cabal install --global HAppS-State went fine, and ghc-pkg had
> output on just the one (global) file.
>
> but sudo cabal install --global HAppS-Server is slooooooow.
>
> I finally canceled this and did
>
> sudo runghc Setup.hs build -v3 with the same result: extremely,
> extremely slow compile.
>
> It seems to get hung up one one line:
>
> src/HAppS/Server/Facebook.hs:416:2:
>    Warning: Defined but not used: `a'
> *** Desugar:
>    Result size = 52971
> *** Simplify:
>    Result size = 34350
>    Result size = 33980
>    Result size = 33972
>    Result size = 33972
> *** Specialise:
>    Result size = 52989
> *** Float out (not lambdas, not constants):
>    Result size = 55269
>
> ... and more and more of same. for 15 minutes now. With verbose output
> on at least I can see there is something going on behind the scenes,
> but still.
>
> I don't remember things taking this long to compile before I upgraded
> to cabal v1.4... cabal bug?
>
> cabal --version
> cabal-install version 0.4.7
> using version 1.3.11 of the Cabal library
>
> thomas.
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> 2008/5/29 Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>:
>> I see. I had done
>>
>> sudo cabal install HAppS-Server
>>
>> but this just installed with root ownership in my home directory.
>>
>> I'm now trying with
>>
>> sudo cabal install --global HAppS-Server
>>
>>
>> 2008/5/29 Daniel Patterson <daniel at dbpatterson.com>:
>>> I think you need to install HAppS-Data etc globally... I'm not sure why
>>> locally installed (ie, only your user) packages wouldn't be picked up by runghc
>>> Setup.hs'ing, but if they are install system wide it should definitely work.
>>>
>>> I think it is cabal --global install foo
>>>
>>> On Thu, 29 May 2008 18:11:04 -0700
>>> "Thomas Hartman" <tphyahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> After a little drama with zlib, I managed to get cabal-install installed.
>>>>
>>>> I then attempted to do
>>>>
>>>> cabal install HAppS-Server
>>>>
>>>> since this is a module with a lot of dependencies, and in rapid
>>>> development flux, so perenially painful for me to install.
>>>>
>>>> The result is that I managed to install everything up to HAppS-State,
>>>> which I think is the last dependency, but then seemed to hang
>>>> indefinitely in the middle of installing HAppS-Server at the end.
>>>>
>>>> OK, I thought, then perhaps I can do normal runghc Setup.hs after
>>>> downloading and unzipping the tar from
>>>>
>>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HAppS-Server-0.9.2.1
>>>>
>>>> However, this resulted in error
>>>>
>>>> thartman at thartman-laptop:~/haskellInstalls/smallInstalls/HAppS-Server-0.9.2.1>runghc
>>>> Setup.hs configure
>>>> ...
>>>> Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>>>> HAppS-Data >=0.9.2...
>>>>
>>>> Strange, because I had just installed that module via cabal-install,
>>>> and I could load it in ghci with :m +HappS.Data.
>>>>
>>>> I then ran ghc-pkg and got this strange result that my packages were
>>>> broken into two different files. Is this by design?
>>>>
>>>> ghc-pkg list
>>>> /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf:
>>>>     Cabal-1.2.3.0, Cabal-1.3.11, Cabal-1.5.2, DeepArrow-0.2,
>>>> ....
>>>> /home/thartman/.ghc/i386-linux-6.8.2/package.conf:
>>>>     HAppS-Data-0.9.2.1, HAppS-IxSet-0.9.2.1, HAppS-State-0.9.2.1,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am curious if anybody else is able to install HAppS-Server using
>>>> cabal install, and whether they can shed any light on the other isuses
>>>> I raised.
>>>>
>>>> Thomas.
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