On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Sergey Bushnyak < sergey.bushnyak@sigrlami.eu> wrote:

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

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.

The other package that changed is base; it's still using old-style exceptions. I thought someone was going to package up old-exceptions and put it on hackage for backward compatibility, but I don't see it there. Same with the other package they tried to install. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Sergey Bushnyak < sergey.bushnyak@sigrlami.eu> wrote:

Isn't it better to send patch with corrections to maintainer?

It is, but if the packages haven't been updated for new-style exceptions by now, they're probably effectively unmaintained. Do you want to take over maintainership? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

Yea, I'm using a 7.* version... ok, thanks! On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Sergey Bushnyak

wrote:

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

-- Abram Demski http://lo-tho.blogspot.com/

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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.

-- Best regards, Sergey Bushnyak

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