Cannot install hs-hashed-storage-04

[eschnett (Erik Schnetter)]

The command

sudo port upgrade darcs

fails with the error message

--->  Computing dependencies for hs-hashed-storage-04
--->  Configuring hs-hashed-storage-04
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed
Log for hs-hashed-storage-04 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_hs-hashed-storage-04/main.log
Error: Problem while installing hs-hashed-storage-04
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

[eschnett (Erik Schnetter)]

log file with error message

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to preview and use WikiFormatting, fill in the Port field, and cc the maintainer.

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

It appears that Cabal or something changed to require registration in /opt/local/lib/ghc-6.10.4/package.conf but that these ports were not upgraded to be registered there. For me

sudo port uninstall -f hs-binary hs-zlib hs-dataenc hs-utf8-string hs-haskeline
sudo port clean --all hs-binary hs-zlib hs-dataenc hs-utf8-string hs-haskeline
sudo port install hs-binary hs-zlib hs-dataenc hs-utf8-string hs-haskeline
sudo port -u upgrade hs-hashed-storage
# I needed to fiddle with "sudo port activate -f hs-hashed-storage-04" here.  YMMV

allowed me to upgrade hs-hashed-storage, and then darcs (hs-utf-8-string and hs-haskeline are for darcs, hs-hashed-storage didn't need them -- I figure this saves you some typing). You may not want to do clean --all, but I suspect you do need to clean out the binary packages if they are build on your system.

[eschnett (Erik Schnetter)]

Stephen

Thanks for the instructions; I was now able to upgrade darcs.

-erik

[gwright@…]

I'll close this out. This seems to be another instance of the generic ghc problem that cabal update can mess with the ghc packages independently of MacPorts, which leads to dependency problems. I discussed some solutions with people at the Haskell Implementor's Workshop in September; I hope to use one for the upcoming haskell-platform.