[darcs-users] Trying to upgrade darcs - cabal error

[Ash Moran]

On 10 Mar 2013, at 14:01, Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suspect using Homebrew for Darcs in its present form is just making life unnecessarily hard on yourself.
> I think there's supposed to be some sort of superenv thing in the future (?) to make it not do that resetting ENV thing.

So… I nuked my ~/.cabal folder. I downloaded the latest Haskell Platform[1] from the Mac page[2]. This told me there were old versions uninstalled, so I ran `sudo uninstall-hs --remove only 7.4.1`, leaving me with v7.4.2.

I tried `cabal install darcs`, which failed, so I tried `cabal install --verbose cabal-install`, which also failed. The failure doesn't mean anything to me. All output is below.

Anyone ideas anyone? It's proving incomprehensibly difficult to install darcs, to the point where I'm thinking I must have done something really stupid at some point in the past.

Cheers
Ash

[1] http://lambda.haskell.org/platform/download/2012.4.0.0/Haskell%20Platform%202012.4.0.0%2064bit.pkg
[2] http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html


===== Command output

% cabal install --verbose darcs        
zsh: correct 'darcs' to '.darcs' [nyae]? n
Reading available packages...
Choosing modular solver.
Resolving dependencies...
Extracting
/Users/ashmoran/Library/Haskell/repo-cache/hackage.haskell.org/dataenc/0.14.0.5/dataenc-0.14.0.5.tar.gz
to /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/dataenc-0.14.0.5-9613...
Configuring dataenc-0.14.0.5...
Flags chosen: tests=False
Dependency array ==0.4.0.0: using array-0.4.0.0
Dependency base ==4.5.1.0: using base-4.5.1.0
Dependency containers ==0.4.2.1: using containers-0.4.2.1
The build-tool has reset ENV. --env=std required.
Extracting
/Users/ashmoran/Library/Haskell/repo-cache/hackage.haskell.org/mmap/0.5.8/mmap-0.5.8.tar.gz
to /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/mmap-0.5.8-9613...
Configuring mmap-0.5.8...
Flags chosen: mmaptest=False
Dependency base ==4.5.1.0: using base-4.5.1.0
Dependency bytestring ==0.9.2.1: using bytestring-0.9.2.1
The build-tool has reset ENV. --env=std required.
Extracting
/Users/ashmoran/Library/Haskell/repo-cache/hackage.haskell.org/primitive/0.5.0.1/primitive-0.5.0.1.tar.gz
to /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/primitive-0.5.0.1-9613...
Configuring primitive-0.5.0.1...
Dependency base ==4.5.1.0: using base-4.5.1.0
Dependency ghc-prim ==0.2.0.0: using ghc-prim-0.2.0.0
The build-tool has reset ENV. --env=std required.
Extracting
/Users/ashmoran/Library/Haskell/repo-cache/hackage.haskell.org/tar/0.4.0.1/tar-0.4.0.1.tar.gz
to /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/tar-0.4.0.1-9613...
Configuring tar-0.4.0.1...
Dependency base ==4.5.1.0: using base-4.5.1.0
Dependency bytestring ==0.9.2.1: using bytestring-0.9.2.1
Dependency directory ==1.1.0.2: using directory-1.1.0.2
Dependency filepath ==1.3.0.0: using filepath-1.3.0.0
Dependency old-time ==1.1.0.0: using old-time-1.1.0.0
Dependency time ==1.4: using time-1.4
The build-tool has reset ENV. --env=std required.
Extracting
/Users/ashmoran/Library/Haskell/repo-cache/hackage.haskell.org/terminfo/0.3.2.5/terminfo-0.3.2.5.tar.gz
to /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/terminfo-0.3.2.5-9613...
Configuring terminfo-0.3.2.5...
Dependency base ==4.5.1.0: using base-4.5.1.0
The build-tool has reset ENV. --env=std required.
Extracting
/Users/ashmoran/Library/Haskell/repo-cache/hackage.haskell.org/utf8-string/0.3.7/utf8-string-0.3.7.tar.gz
to /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/utf8-string-0.3.7-9613...
Configuring utf8-string-0.3.7...
Flags chosen: bytestring-in-base=False
Dependency base ==4.5.1.0: using base-4.5.1.0
Dependency bytestring ==0.9.2.1: using bytestring-0.9.2.1
The build-tool has reset ENV. --env=std required.
World file is already up to date.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
darcs-2.8.4 depends on utf8-string-0.3.7 which failed to install.
dataenc-0.14.0.5 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
hashed-storage-0.5.10 depends on mmap-0.5.8 which failed to install.
haskeline-0.7.0.3 depends on terminfo-0.3.2.5 which failed to install.
mmap-0.5.8 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
primitive-0.5.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
tar-0.4.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
terminfo-0.3.2.5 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
utf8-string-0.3.7 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
vector-0.10.0.1 depends on primitive-0.5.0.1 which failed to install.

% cabal install --verbose cabal-install
Reading available packages...
Choosing modular solver.
Resolving dependencies...
Extracting
/Users/ashmoran/Library/Haskell/repo-cache/hackage.haskell.org/Cabal/1.16.0.3/Cabal-1.16.0.3.tar.gz
to /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451...
creating
/var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist/setup
creating
/var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist
creating
/var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist/setup
/usr/local/bin/ghc --make /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451/Cabal-1.16.0.3/Setup.hs -o /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist/setup/setup -odir /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist/setup -hidir /var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451/Cabal-1.16.0.3/dist/setup -i -i/var/folders/l4/d10c6ygs5dg99x0lxwz3hgwr0000gn/T/Cabal-1.16.0.3-9451/Cabal-1.16.0.3
The build-tool has reset ENV. --env=std required.
World file is already up to date.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
Cabal-1.16.0.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
cabal-install-1.16.0.2 depends on Cabal-1.16.0.3 which failed to install.

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