[Haskell-cafe] 'cabal install lhs2tex' fails for me on os x -- help please

Conal Elliott conal at conal.net
Mon Jul 27 14:54:56 EDT 2009


Yo ho!  I just installed ghc-6.10.4 over my 6.10.3.  Now 'cabal install
lhs2tex' works.  Phew!

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:

> Via cabal:
>>
>>    --constraint='base<4'
>>
>> or replace Control.Exception with Control.OldException
>>
>> or add 'base < 4'  to the depends in the .cabal file.
>>
>
> Thanks, Don.
>
> Trying your first suggestion, I get the same result for the first and third
> method, and a ghc panic on cat_evals for the second method.  All happening
> in ghc-6.10.3 installed via the Haskell Platform last week on OS X.
>
>     bash-3.2$ cabal install lhs2tex --constraint='base<4'
>     Resolving dependencies...
>     [1 of 1] Compiling Main             (
> /tmp/lhs2tex-1.1424460/lhs2tex-1.14/Setup.hs,
> /tmp/lhs2tex-1.1424460/lhs2tex-1.14/dist/setup/Main.o )
>     Linking /tmp/lhs2tex-1.1424460/lhs2tex-1.14/dist/setup/setup ...
>     Configuring lhs2tex-1.14...
>     cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>     lhs2tex-1.14 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>     exit: ExitFailure 11
>
> Still fishy about compiling Main first.
>
> Now I'll edit add the '< 4' constraint on base, giving the same result:
>
>     bash-3.2$ dirs
>     ~/cabal
>     bash-3.2$ cabal unpack lhs2tex
>     Unpacking lhs2tex-1.14...
>     bash-3.2$ cd lhs2tex-1.14
>
> [lhs2tex.cabal edit happens here]
>
>     bash-3.2$ cabal install
>     Resolving dependencies...
>     [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, dist/setup/Main.o )
>     Linking ./dist/setup/setup ...
>     Configuring lhs2tex-1.14...
>     cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>     lhs2tex-1.14 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>     exit: ExitFailure 11
>
> Note that on linux, the package compiles without changing the base
> constraint. I don't know how.
>
> Finally, use explicit ./configure & make:
>
>     bash-3.2$ ./configure
>     bash: ./configure: Permission denied
>     bash-3.2$ sh configure
>     checking for ghc... /usr/bin/ghc
>     checking for hugs... no
>     checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>     checking whether ln -s works... yes
>     checking for mv... /bin/mv
>     checking for cp... /bin/cp
>     checking for rm... /bin/rm
>     checking for mkdir... /bin/mkdir
>     checking for touch... /usr/bin/touch
>     checking for diff... /usr/bin/diff
>     checking for grep... /usr/bin/grep
>     checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
>     checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort
>     checking for uniq... /usr/bin/uniq
>     checking for find... /usr/bin/find
>     checking for latex...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/latex
>     checking for pdflatex...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/pdflatex
>     checking for xdvi... /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/xdvi
>     checking for gv... no
>     checking for dvips...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/dvips
>     checking for kpsewhich...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/kpsewhich
>     checking for a texmf tree... /usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local
>     checking for texmf.cnf... yes
>     checking for the polytable package...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polytable/polytable.sty
>     checking for version of polytable... 0.8.2
>     checking whether polytable needs to be installed... no
>     checking for mktexlsr...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/mktexlsr
>     configure: creating ./config.status
>     config.status: creating config.mk
>     config.status: creating Version.lhs
>     config.status: creating lhs2TeX.1
>     config.status: creating doc/InteractiveHugs.lhs
>     config.status: creating doc/InteractivePre.lhs
>     Configuration succesfully completed.
>     Say
>          make               to compile and build documentation
>          make bin           to compile the binary only
>          make install       to (compile and) install
>
> [edit happens here, changing Control.Exception to Control.OldException.]
>
>     bash-3.2$ ./configure
>     bash: ./configure: Permission denied
>     bash-3.2$ sh configure
>     checking for ghc... /usr/bin/ghc
>     checking for hugs... no
>     checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>     checking whether ln -s works... yes
>     checking for mv... /bin/mv
>     checking for cp... /bin/cp
>     checking for rm... /bin/rm
>     checking for mkdir... /bin/mkdir
>     checking for touch... /usr/bin/touch
>     checking for diff... /usr/bin/diff
>     checking for grep... /usr/bin/grep
>     checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
>     checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort
>     checking for uniq... /usr/bin/uniq
>     checking for find... /usr/bin/find
>     checking for latex...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/latex
>     checking for pdflatex...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/pdflatex
>     checking for xdvi... /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/xdvi
>     checking for gv... no
>     checking for dvips...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/dvips
>     checking for kpsewhich...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/kpsewhich
>     checking for a texmf tree... /usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local
>     checking for texmf.cnf... yes
>     checking for the polytable package...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polytable/polytable.sty
>     checking for version of polytable... 0.8.2
>     checking whether polytable needs to be installed... no
>     checking for mktexlsr...
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin/mktexlsr
>     configure: creating ./config.status
>     config.status: creating config.mk
>     config.status: creating Version.lhs
>     config.status: creating lhs2TeX.1
>     config.status: creating doc/InteractiveHugs.lhs
>     config.status: creating doc/InteractivePre.lhs
>     Configuration succesfully completed.
>     Say
>          make               to compile and build documentation
>          make bin           to compile the binary only
>          make install       to (compile and) install
>     bash-3.2$ make
>     [...]
>     /usr/bin/grep "^%include " Main.lhs | /usr/bin/sed -e 's,^%include
> ,Main.tex : ,' | /usr/bin/sort | /usr/bin/uniq > Main.ld; \
>             /bin/cp Main.ld Main.ldd; \
>             /usr/bin/sed -e 's/#.*//' -e 's/^[^:]*: *//' -e 's/ *\\$//' -e
> '/^$/ d' -e 's/$/ :/' < Main.ldd >> Main.ld; \
>             /bin/rm -f Main.ldd
>     /usr/bin/ghc -O --make -o lhs2TeX Main.lhs
>     [ 1 of 19] Compiling Document         ( Document.lhs, Document.o )
>     [ 2 of 19] Compiling Auxiliaries      ( Auxiliaries.lhs, Auxiliaries.o
> )
>     [ 3 of 19] Compiling StateT           ( StateT.lhs, StateT.o )
>     [ 4 of 19] Compiling Verbatim         ( Verbatim.lhs, Verbatim.o )
>     [ 5 of 19] Compiling Value            ( Value.lhs, Value.o )
>     [ 6 of 19] Compiling FiniteMap        ( FiniteMap.lhs, FiniteMap.o )
>     [ 7 of 19] Compiling TeXCommands      ( TeXCommands.lhs, TeXCommands.o
> )
>     [ 8 of 19] Compiling HsLexer          ( HsLexer.lhs, HsLexer.o )
>     [ 9 of 19] Compiling TeXParser        ( TeXParser.lhs, TeXParser.o )
>     [10 of 19] Compiling Parser           ( Parser.lhs, Parser.o )
>     [11 of 19] Compiling Directives       ( Directives.lhs, Directives.o )
>     [12 of 19] Compiling Typewriter       ( Typewriter.lhs, Typewriter.o )
>     [13 of 19] Compiling MathCommon       ( MathCommon.lhs, MathCommon.o )
>     [14 of 19] Compiling MathPoly         ( MathPoly.lhs, MathPoly.o )
>     [15 of 19] Compiling NewCode          ( NewCode.lhs, NewCode.o )
>     [16 of 19] Compiling Math             ( Math.lhs, Math.o )
>     [17 of 19] Compiling FileNameUtils    ( FileNameUtils.lhs,
> FileNameUtils.o )
>      [18 of 19] Compiling Version          ( Version.lhs, Version.o )
>     [19 of 19] Compiling Main             ( Main.lhs, Main.o )
>     ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>       (GHC version 6.10.3 for i386-apple-darwin):
>             cat_evals
>         base:GHC.Arr.Array{d rau}
>         [ww{v aFwM} [lid], ww1{v aFwN} [lid], ww2{v aFwO} [lid]]
>         [!, !, _, _]
>
>     Please report this as a GHC bug:
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
>
>     make: *** [lhs2TeX] Error 1
>     bash-3.2$
>
> Hm!  Gremlins.
>
>     - Conal
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
>
>> conal:
>> > Fails during configuration:
>> >
>> > bash-3.2$ cabal install lhs2tex
>> >     Resolving dependencies...
>> >     [1 of 1] Compiling Main             (
>> /tmp/lhs2tex-1.1423397/lhs2tex-1.14/
>> > Setup.hs, /tmp/lhs2tex-1.1423397/lhs2tex-1.14/dist/setup/Main.o )
>> >     Linking /tmp/lhs2tex-1.1423397/lhs2tex-1.14/dist/setup/setup ...
>> >     Configuring lhs2tex-1.14...
>> >     cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> >     lhs2tex-1.14 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>> >     exit: ExitFailure 11
>> >
>> > Note that the the first module to be compiled is Main.  On my linux
>> machine,
>> > Main is the *last* of several modules to be compiled.
>> >
>> > Here's my failure log:
>> http://moonpatio.com/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=3096#
>> > a3096 .
>> >
>> > If instead I use ./configure and make, i get errors due to use of the
>> old
>> > Exception API:
>> >
>> >     ...
>> >     [17 of 19] Compiling FileNameUtils    ( FileNameUtils.lhs,
>> FileNameUtils.o
>> > )
>> >
>> >     FileNameUtils.lhs:81:35:
>> >         Ambiguous type variable `b' in the constraint:
>> >           `GHC.Exception.Exception b'
>> >             arising from a use of `catch' at
>> FileNameUtils.lhs:(81,35)-(89,60)
>> >         Probable fix: add a type signature that fixes these type
>> variable(s)
>> >     ...
>> >
>> > Suggestions greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Via cabal:
>>
>>    --constraint='base<4'
>>
>> or replace Control.Exception with Control.OldException
>>
>> or add 'base < 4'  to the depends in the .cabal file.
>>
>> -- Don
>>
>
>
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