MinGHC - failure with data-default-instances-old-locale

[tomberek]

Vanilla install with MinGHC 7.10.1 on Windows 7
using cabal install stackage-cli

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
cookie-0.4.1.4 depends on data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1 which failed
to install.
data-default-0.5.3 depends on data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1 which
failed to install.
data-default-instances-containers-0.0.1 failed during the building phase. The
exception was:
ExitFailure 1
data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1 failed during the building phase. The
exception was:
ExitFailure 1
http-client-0.4.11.1 depends on data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1 which
failed to install.
http-client-tls-0.2.2 depends on data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1 which
failed to install.
publicsuffixlist-0.1 depends on data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1 which
failed to install.
stackage-cli-0.0.0.4 depends on data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1 which
failed to install.

contents of log for data-default-instances-old-locale

Building data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1...
Preprocessing library data-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1...
[1 of 1] Compiling Data.Default.Instances.OldLocale ( Data\Default\Instances\OldLocale.hs, dist\build\Data\Default\Instances\OldLocale.o )
C:\Program Files\MinGHC-7.10.1\ghc-7.10.1\mingw\bin\ar.exe: dist\build\libHSdata-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1-6jcjjaR25tK4x3nJhHHjFM.a-12252\libHSdata-default-instances-old-locale-0.0.1-6jcjjaR25tK4x3nJhHHjFM.a: No such file or directory

more:

Building data-default-instances-containers-0.0.1...
Preprocessing library data-default-instances-containers-0.0.1...
[1 of 1] Compiling Data.Default.Instances.Containers ( Data\Default\Instances\Containers.hs, dist\build\Data\Default\Instances\Containers.o )
C:\Program Files\MinGHC-7.10.1\ghc-7.10.1\mingw\bin\ar.exe: dist\build\libHSdata-default-instances-containers-0.0.1-GVMvZTIbSoDCiC0TxHw1BG.a-10648\libHSdata-default-instances-containers-0.0.1-GVMvZTIbSoDCiC0TxHw1BG.a: No such file or directory

(ar.exe exists)

[snoyberg]

I think I've read that this is a known bug with GHC 7.10.1 on Windows. I'd recommend sticking to 7.8.4 for the time being (not to mention, it's the version supported by Stackage and LTS Haskell).

[tomberek]

You're right: haskell/cabal#2502

[snoyberg]

Thanks for the link. In that case, I'd like to close this issue, as there's nothing in stackage-cli or MinGHC we can do to fix it, it has to be resolved upstream.

[tomberek]

For anyone else searching for this:
haskell/cabal#2525 outlines a procedure that works.
Basically, perform cabal get on data-default-instances-old-locale and data-default-instances-containers, cd into each folder, perform cabal install and then try again with cabal install stackage-cli

[DanBurton]

What we might want to do here is have stackage-cli spit out warnings or
errors if ghc --version doesn't match the selected snapshot's intended
ghc version.

stackage-cli is currently intended for ghc-7.8 only (simply because there
are no ghc-7.10 snapshots available on Stackage yet) and I don't think that
has been communicated clearly.

-- Dan Burton

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:50 PM, tomberek [email protected] wrote:

For anyone else searching for this:
haskell/cabal#2525 haskell/cabal#2525
outlines a procedure that works.
Basically, perform cabal get on data-default-instances-old-locale and
data-default-instances-containers, cd into each folder, perform cabal
install and then try again with cabal install stackage-cli

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[DanBurton]

On second look, what I'm talking about in my last comment actually appears to be unrelated to this issue, but I've opened a new issue about it nonetheless. #40