[Nix-dev] haskell-env-ghc-7.8.3 fails to build

[Tom Dimiduk]

Great, thanks for the explanation. ghcWithPackagesOld worked, I'll try
putting it back after GHC 7.8.4


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Charles Strahan <
charles.c.strahan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> It looks like the problem is that GHC includes its own `terminfo' package,
> and now that GHC uses shared libraries, it includes a `
> libHSterminfo-0.4.0.0-ghc7.8.3.so' that collides with `terminfo' from
> cabal. Peter Simons has a description of the problem as it relates to
> `xhtml'
> <http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2014-April/012992.html>,
> and the gist of it was that you could use `ghcWithPackagesOld' to step
> around the problem for now. If I've read GHC ticket #
> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8919>8919
> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8919> correctly, it looks like
> commit 4caadb7cb
> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/4caadb7cbee5c176abb99df25c4cc1657ae57f40/ghc>
> (which landed on master about 7 weeks ago) should resolve the problem. I'm
> not sure if that's something that we might want to cherry-pick, or if we'll
> just need to wait for GHC 7.8.4.
>
> Cheers,
> -Charles
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Tom Dimiduk <tom at dimiduk.net> wrote:
>
>> I was looking forward to playing with ghc-7.8 when unstable pushed out
>> the new version this week, but things won't quite build. Any advice on how
>> to debug this?
>>
>> nixos-rebuild --upgrade
>> test
>> ⏎
>> downloading Nix expressions from `
>> http://releases.nixos.org/nixos/unstable/nixos-14.10pre46074.4e06537/nixexprs.tar.xz'.
>> ..
>>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
>> Current
>>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
>> Speed
>> 100 3738k  100 3738k    0     0   286k      0  0:00:13  0:00:13 --:--:--
>> 553k
>> unpacking channels...
>> created 2 symlinks in user environment
>> building Nix...
>> building the system configuration...
>> these derivations will be built:
>>   /nix/store/14zdm2xf0zxwcpgkipkfyljpak7qw3cd-haskell-env-ghc-7.8.3.drv
>>   /nix/store/2bqxkycdz6cyn06mfzdr383yj4pzri6m-unit.drv
>>   /nix/store/61qv9b7pv7fvccc7iifqsm791dx1frfz-system-crontab.drv
>>   /nix/store/7zrsqigl5l4qssq31hv88s098njkljjy-dbus-conf.drv
>>   /nix/store/jqr4zl9skbvnsq6sr58b4xq5jkp5azmb-etc.drv
>>
>> /nix/store/n1z9rzpd3dkc2d0xm08rla3gm5qwyym4-nixos-14.10pre45979.0d23cf8.drv
>>   /nix/store/snl5xyrgbbddgvpi59hv1733cscx74p8-system-path.drv
>>   /nix/store/vdngyxaiashq5c531dr9g3znkg6vqw1c-system-units.drv
>> building path(s)
>> `/nix/store/k1k6hdjd071il8z6mpl7n00rkrjix5b4-haskell-env-ghc-7.8.3'
>> building /nix/store/k1k6hdjd071il8z6mpl7n00rkrjix5b4-haskell-env-ghc-7.8.3
>> collision between
>> `/nix/store/hb92nfw5iapmrgy7c12h04vhp6yqb85b-ghc-7.8.3/lib/ghc-7.8.3/terminfo-0.4.0.0/
>> libHSterminfo-0.4.0.0-ghc7.8.3.so' and
>> `/nix/store/8jq44m6r7nakl2hqfp11pbz93wr2p0gh-haskell-terminfo-ghc7.8.3-0.4.0.0-shared/lib/ghc-7.8.3/terminfo-0.4.0.0/
>> libHSterminfo-0.4.0.0-ghc7.8.3.so' at /nix/store/
>> 9z6d76pz8rr7gci2n3igh5dqi7ac5xqj-builder.pl line 72.
>> note: keeping build directory `/tmp/nix-build-haskell-env-ghc-7.8.3.drv-7'
>> builder for
>> `/nix/store/14zdm2xf0zxwcpgkipkfyljpak7qw3cd-haskell-env-ghc-7.8.3.drv'
>> failed with exit code 2
>> cannot build derivation
>> `/nix/store/snl5xyrgbbddgvpi59hv1733cscx74p8-system-path.drv': 1
>> dependencies couldn't be built
>> cannot build derivation
>> `/nix/store/61qv9b7pv7fvccc7iifqsm791dx1frfz-system-crontab.drv': 1
>> dependencies couldn't be built
>> cannot build derivation
>> `/nix/store/7zrsqigl5l4qssq31hv88s098njkljjy-dbus-conf.drv': 1 dependencies
>> couldn't be built
>> cannot build derivation
>> `/nix/store/2bqxkycdz6cyn06mfzdr383yj4pzri6m-unit.drv': 1 dependencies
>> couldn't be built
>> cannot build derivation
>> `/nix/store/vdngyxaiashq5c531dr9g3znkg6vqw1c-system-units.drv': 1
>> dependencies couldn't be built
>> cannot build derivation
>> `/nix/store/jqr4zl9skbvnsq6sr58b4xq5jkp5azmb-etc.drv': 3 dependencies
>> couldn't be built
>> cannot build derivation
>> `/nix/store/n1z9rzpd3dkc2d0xm08rla3gm5qwyym4-nixos-14.10pre45979.0d23cf8.drv':
>> 2 dependencies couldn't be built
>> error: build of
>> `/nix/store/n1z9rzpd3dkc2d0xm08rla3gm5qwyym4-nixos-14.10pre45979.0d23cf8.drv'
>> failed
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
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