On 01/10/2013 03:02 AM, Abram Demski wrote:

Hi all,

I'm just trying to install some of the games from the game list (on the wiki) so that I have something to look at. I tried the ones which have cabal packages as I assumed that would be easy. Every one I tried so far has failed to install. Below are two of the quickest failures. Any comments are appreciated. Is there something I'm generally not getting? Or are there just various problems with installing possibly-old packages?

abram@whitehead:~$ cabal install shu-thing
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring Shu-thing-1.1.1...
Building Shu-thing-1.1.1...
Preprocessing executable 'shu-thing' for Shu-thing-1.1.1...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Shu-thing.hs, dist/build/shu-thing/shu-

thing-tmp/Main.o )

Shu-thing.hs:4:27:
    Module
    `Control.Exception'
    does not export
    `Exception(ExitException)'
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
Shu-thing-1.1.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

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abram@whitehead:~$ cabal install spaceInvaders
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring HGL-3.2.0.0...
Building HGL-3.2.0.0...
Preprocessing library HGL-3.2.0.0...
[ 1 of 27] Compiling Graphics.HGL.Internals.Flag ( Graphics/HGL/Internals/Flag.

hs, dist/build/Graphics/HGL/Internals/Flag.o )
[ 2 of 27] Compiling Graphics.HGL.Internals.Utilities ( Graphics/HGL/Internals/Utilities.hs, dist/build/Graphics/HGL/Internals/Utilities.o )

Graphics/HGL/Internals/Utilities.hs:33:31:
    Expecting one more argument to `E.Exception'
    In the type signature for `safeTry':
      safeTry :: IO a -> IO (Either E.Exception a)

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:

HGL-3.2.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

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Abram Demski
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What version of ghc and cabal are you using? shu-thing builds on ghc-6.8 and failed on ghc-7.*. Package probably broken and need to be updated, due to changes in other packages.

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Sergey Bushnyak