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Using Cabal-1.22 for Setup.hs with GHC-7.8 #1002

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mwu-tow opened this issue Sep 17, 2015 · 10 comments
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Using Cabal-1.22 for Setup.hs with GHC-7.8 #1002

mwu-tow opened this issue Sep 17, 2015 · 10 comments
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mwu-tow commented Sep 17, 2015

Hello,
I have a package that uses custom Setup.hs file that requires Cabal library at least in version 1.22. I need to build the package with GHC 7.8.

With cabal it is enough to cabal install cabal — and then Setup.hs will be linked against the latest Cabal library. Using GHC 7.8 with it works seamlessly.

How can I tell stack to use newer Cabal version for Setup.hs?

I tried adding Cabal-1.22.4.0 to the extra-deps field but it does not help — apparently the newer Cabal will be available to the built package but not its Setup.hs. It still gets Cabal-1.18.1.5 that comes with GHC 7.8.

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There's an --upgrade-cabal argument to stack setup that should do what you
want.

Can we move this q&a to stack overflow so that others can find this answer
more easily in the future?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 2:03 PM Michał Wawrzyniec Urbańczyk <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hello,
I have a package that uses custom Setup.hs file that requires Cabal
library at least in version 1.22. I need to build the package with GHC 7.8.

With cabal it is enough to cabal install cabal — and then Setup.hs will
be linked against the latest Cabal library. Using GHC 7.8 with it works
seamlessly.

How can I tell stack to use newer Cabal version for Setup.hs?

I tried adding Cabal-1.22.4.0 to the extra-deps field but it does not
help — apparently the newer Cabal will be available to the built package
but not its Setup.hs. It still gets Cabal-1.18.1.5 that comes with GHC
7.8.


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mwu-tow commented Sep 17, 2015

@snoyberg
Thank you for such quick answer. Yes, of course — should I just raise that question on SO and post the link here?
Still, please let's continue for a while here, since this format better works for follow-up doubts.

I'm not sure if it will work for me. I use a custom (patched) GHC 7.8.4 build, the GHC downloaded by stack setup won't work for me. I was sure that stack setup with --upgrade-cabal will just install a new GHC with overwritten cabal so I didn't try it before.
Now I tried stack setup 7.8.4 --upgrade-cabal and it detected my custom build from PATH:

Trying to upgrade Cabal library on a GHC not installed by stack.
This may fail, caveat emptor!
Installing Cabal-1.22.4.0 to replace 1.18.1.5
[ 1 of 79] Compiling Distribution.GetOpt ( Distribution\GetOpt.hs, Distribution\GetOpt.o )
[snip…]
[79 of 79] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o )
Linking Setup.exe ...
Did not find executable at specified path: C:\Users\MWURB_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\stack-cabal-upgrade19588\Cabal-1.22.4.0\Setup

Apparently it failed. And so it is — stack build still uses the old Cabal after that.
Am I doing something wrong? It's not clear to me what actually happened.

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That may be a bug on Windows, quite unrelated. Let me check something.

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Can you try upgrading to stack master (stack upgrade --git) and running that command again?

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mwu-tow commented Sep 17, 2015

I tried stack upgrade --git and it failed: https://gist.github.com/mwu-tow/c171f157bbe55de326d8

My current stack --version is Version 0.1.4.0, Git revision dac8cfe51802e08edb523b80c51cf35e21933513 (1722 commits) X86_64

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Looks like you're hitting the 32k character limit on Windows... try this executable instead. https://s3.amazonaws.com/download.fpcomplete.com/michael/stack-f24a2474b06722244acae2b3159be819cda6bb20.zip

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mwu-tow commented Sep 17, 2015

Thanks.
Interestingly, the corrected stack when asked to stack setup 7.8.4 --upgrade-cabal starts downloading a new GHC 7.8.4 package instead of updating the existing one — not the thing we want to check.

Could it be cause my GHC is 64-bit and stack you provided is 32-bit and stack tries to install GHC with the same architecture? Can I somehow tell stack setup to use 64-bit GHC? Help says only about specifying GHC version, not architecture.

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There's a --arch argument, use stack --help to see help about it. --arch x86_64 should do it.

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mwu-tow commented Sep 17, 2015

Oh, right, sorry about that — I'm still getting started with stack.

It works! Now my package builds correctly.
Thank you very much for the great support, I'm impressed. :)

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Sure, no problem, glad it's working!

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Michał Wawrzyniec Urbańczyk <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Oh, right, sorry about that — I'm still getting started with stack.

It works! Now my package builds correctly.
Thank you very much for the great support, I'm impressed. :)


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