[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: hackage compile failure with QuickCheck 2.5

[Alexander Foremny]

Which package are you trying to build? Is it a local package that
fails to build or something on Hackage? Its .cabal file or at least
full dependencies would be of interest.

Regards,
Alexander Foremny

2012/7/17 Levent Erkok <erkokl at gmail.com>:
> Thanks Alexander. However, I'm not sure how to use the workaround described
> so I can get hackage to properly compile my package. It sounds like I have
> to add a "template-haskell >= 2.7.0.0"  dependency to my own cabal file,
> which sounds like the wrong thing to do in the long-run.
>
> Is there something that can be done on the hackage/ghc side to avoid this
> issue? Or something less drastic than adding a template-haskell dependency
> on my own package's cabal file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Levent.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Alexander Foremny
> <alexanderforemny at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Levent,
>>
>> I think this [1] could be related.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexander Foremny
>>
>> PS. Sent this to Levent directly. Here's a copy for the mailing list.
>> Sorry for the noise.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Bad-interface-problem-td5714184.html
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Alexander Foremny <alexanderforemny at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2012/7/17
>> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] hackage compile failure with QuickCheck 2.5
>> To: Levent Erkok <erkokl at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> Dear Levent,
>>
>> I think this [1] could be related.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexander Foremny
>>
>> [1]
>> http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Bad-interface-problem-td5714184.html
>>
>> 2012/7/17 Levent Erkok <erkokl at gmail.com>:
>> > [This message is more appropriate for a hackage mailing list I presume,
>> > but
>> > that doesn't seem to exist. Let me know if there's a better place to
>> > send
>> > it.]
>> >
>> > I'm having a hackage compile failure for a newly uplodaded package that
>> > has
>> > a QuickCheck 2.5 dependence. The error message is:
>> >
>> > [13 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.All ( Test/QuickCheck/All.hs,
>> > dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/All.o )
>> >
>> > Test/QuickCheck/All.hs:15:1:
>> >     Bad interface file:
>> >
>> > /usr/local/tmp/archive/install/lib/template-haskell-2.6.0.0/ghc-7.4.1/Language/Haskell/TH.hi
>> >         Something is amiss; requested module
>> > template-haskell-2.6.0.0:Language.Haskell.TH differs from name found in
>> > the
>> > interface file template-haskell:Language.Haskell.TH
>> >
>> >
>> > The full log file is at (search for "Something is a miss" in it):
>> > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/sbv/2.2/logs/failure/ghc-7.4
>> >
>> > Needless to say, I don't see this problem when I compile this package at
>> > home with the same compiler (ghc 7.4.1) as hackage is using; also
>> > Hackage
>> > has a successfully compiled QuickCheck 2.5 package.
>> >
>> > Could it be something related to the particular cabal/ghc installation
>> > on
>> > the hackage server? In particular, I don't understand why it picks
>> > template-haskell 2.6.0.0 when there's a newer version (2.7.0.0). As far
>> > as I
>> > can see, QuickCheck doesn't put an upper limit on its template haskell
>> > version dependency.
>> >
>> > I'd appreciate any pointers with this. (Googling and questions on the
>> > #haskell irc channel didn't help much, unfortunately.)
>> >
>> > -Levent.
>> >
>> >
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