stack build network fails during configuration

[dkasak]

Running stack build network fails, producing the following output:

network-2.6.3.2: configure

--  While building package network-2.6.3.2 using:
    /tmp/stack32197/network-2.6.3.2/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/Cabal-1.24.2.0/setup/setup --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/Cabal-1.24.2.0 configure --with-ghc=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-tinfo6-nopie-8.0.2/bin/ghc --with-ghc-pkg=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-tinfo6-nopie-8.0.2/bin/ghc-pkg --user --package-db=clear --package-db=global --package-db=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/pkgdb --libdir=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/lib --bindir=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/bin --datadir=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/share --libexecdir=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/libexec --sysconfdir=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/etc --docdir=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/doc/network-2.6.3.2 --htmldir=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/doc/network-2.6.3.2 --haddockdir=/home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/lts-9.11/8.0.2/doc/network-2.6.3.2 --dependency=base=base-4.9.1.0 --dependency=bytestring=bytestring-0.10.8.1 --dependency=unix=unix-2.7.2.1
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
    Logs have been written to: /home/dkasak/code/poljar/fialka/.stack-work/logs/network-2.6.3.2.log

    [1 of 2] Compiling Main             ( /tmp/stack32197/network-2.6.3.2/Setup.hs, /tmp/stack32197/network-2.6.3.2/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/Cabal-1.24.2.0/setup/Main.o )
    [2 of 2] Compiling StackSetupShim   ( /home/dkasak/.local/share/stack/setup-exe-src/setup-shim-mPHDZzAJ.hs, /tmp/stack32197/network-2.6.3.2/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/Cabal-1.24.2.0/setup/StackSetupShim.o )
    Linking /tmp/stack32197/network-2.6.3.2/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-tinfo6-nopie/Cabal-1.24.2.0/setup/setup ...
    Configuring network-2.6.3.2...
    configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
    checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
    checking whether the C compiler works... yes
    checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
    checking for suffix of executables... 
    checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/tmp/stack32197/network-2.6.3.2':
    configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
    If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
    See `config.log' for more details

stack version:

Version 1.6.0, Git revision 2d9721356270e11a37add59b772bde7174ebeb67 x86_64 hpack-0.18.1

The resolver used is lts-9.11. I noticed that #1714, which is now closed, has a very similar error message and is also concerning the network package so it may be related somehow.

[dkasak]

I just found #3459, which seems identical (I'm on Arch Linux as well). I'll try the workaround from #3448 that was mentioned there.

@ZedPea: When you said that the workaround from #3448 worked to resolve your error, did you mean this one?

[zpalmtree]

@dkasak Yes, but that stopped working a while ago, after an update. The fix which worked for me last time it happened was:

• Add ghc-build: nopie to my ~/.stack/config.yaml
• Install ncurses5-compat-libs from the AUR

[dkasak]

Yeah, the old workaround didn't work. I already had ncurses5-compat-libs installed, so adding ghc-build: nopie did the trick.

Does anyone have an idea why this is necessary, though? stack was already downloading the nopie bindist.

[zpalmtree]

@dkasak I can't say I know why it keeps breaking, it's something to do with ncurses for sure. There's a bug report here which seems to show a missing symlink: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56101

[dkasak]

I'm going to close this since I can see there are a lot of duplicates and the workaround works for me.

For reference, these are the duplicates I encountered: #3488, #3459, #3509.