October 2008 - cabal-devel

patch applied (cabal): Export a compat function for older Setup.hs scripts
by Duncan Coutts 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Sat Oct 11 11:21:31 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Export a compat function for older Setup.hs scripts Makes it possible for alex and happy to work with cabal-1.2 -> 1.6 M ./Distribution/Simple/Setup.hs +5 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20081011182131-adfee-7258f46a…

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patch applied (cabal): Fix instructions in README for building with 6.6 and filepath
by Duncan Coutts 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Fri Oct 10 17:28:19 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Fix instructions in README for building with 6.6 and filepath M ./README -3 +12 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20081011002819-adfee-87a580e1…

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patch applied (cabal): Update release procedure in Makefile
by Duncan Coutts 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Fri Oct 10 11:14:45 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Update release procedure in Makefile Building the haddock docs requires building first. Arguably this is a Cabal bug. It should probably generate the "autogen" files for haddock and not just for build. M ./Makefile -1 +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20081010181445-adfee-83d96256…

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cabal install franchise now works
by Duncan Coutts 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

As of franchise-0.0.2 and cabal-install-0.5.10 it works to: $ cabal install franchise Previously the difficulty was in compiling the Setup.hs script that franchise uses. Of course it's Setup.hs script imports other modules from the local package. This is basically the same as how the Cabal library is bootstrapped. Previously cabal-install was not telling ghc to look in the right place to pick up other local modules. So franchise is the first build system (apart from Cabal itself) to implement the Cabal package spec. Which is nice. The main ongoing difficulty will be that cabal-install and other packaging systems, rpm, etc assume rather more than the original minimal command line interface that the Cabal spec described. Currently for "build-type: Custom" cabal-install assumes a number of command line flags that are provided by the Cabal library implementation and are not specified in the original spec. That's something we may want to look at if we foresee multiple implementations coming into common use. Duncan

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Re: cannot find -lHSrts_thr was: Re: planning for ghc-6.10.1 and hackage
by Duncan Coutts 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:13 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: > Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Duncan Coutts > > <duncan.coutts(a)worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Right, you need the darcs version of cabal-install. > > > > Many packages build fine, but linking Yi fails with: > > > > Linking dist/build/yi/yi ... > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr > > I get the same error. > -bash-3.1$ ghc --make CASL/capa.hs -threaded > Linking CASL/capa ... > ld: fatal: library -lHSrts_thr: not found > ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to CASL/capa > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > The libs exists in the built-tree but are not included in the > "binary-dist" (and are hus not installed). Ahh. I didn't notice at first you're both using ghc-6.10. So does that mean it's not the fault of Cabal-1.6 then? :-) Yay! Note that the source builds do seem to install libHSrts_thr.a. I've got it for ghc-6.10.0.20081005 which I built from source. So presumably it's just a problem with generating the bindists. Duncan

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Re: planning for ghc-6.10.1 and hackage
by Duncan Coutts 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:36 -0700, Duncan Coutts wrote: > I propose two solutions: > > * Fix the dependency resolver > * Add support in Cabal and Hackage for suggested version > constraints > So I'll aim to work on both issues this week and report back on how > things are going. Done! Four days and 15 patches later I can construct install plans for 710 packages from hackage using the darcs cabal-install and last nights ghc-6.10. (It would be more like 730 but I've not got gtk2hs built for 6.10, for ghc-6.8 it's 743 packages) The next step is to actually build everything and compare. We'll do this tomorrow and report results. There are three combinations we are interested in: * baseline: ghc-6.8 and Cabal-1.4 * new Cabal: ghc-6.8 and Cabal-1.6 * new ghc: ghc-6.10 and Cabal-1.6 So we'll try building all 700+ packages all three ways and compare the build reports. We'll report anything interesting that might indicate new ghc bugs. If all looks ok I'll also release Cabal-1.6. Duncan

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patch applied (cabal-install): Fix the -i dir for compiling Setup.hs when it's the current dir
by Duncan Coutts 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Fri Oct 10 16:45:58 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Fix the -i dir for compiling Setup.hs when it's the current dir map "" to "." M ./Distribution/Client/SetupWrapper.hs -1 +3 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install/_darcs/patches/20081010234558-adfee-…

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cabal-1.6.0.0
by Duncan Coutts 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

I've tagged Cabal-1.6.0.0 and the tarball is on the cabal website. http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html Tomorrow I'll update the version of Cabal that hackage is using and upload Cabal-1.6.0.0 to hackage. We're also planning to bump and upload the extralib packages tomorrow. I also hope to release cabal-install-0.6.0 in the next couple days. In the mean time please use the darcs version and report any issues. Duncan

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patch applied (cabal-install): Tidy up the preferred-versions file parser
by Duncan Coutts 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Fri Oct 10 00:01:05 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Tidy up the preferred-versions file parser M ./Distribution/Client/IndexUtils.hs -1 +8 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install/_darcs/patches/20081010070105-adfee-…

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patch applied (cabal-install): Bump version number and dependencies
by Duncan Coutts 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Thu Oct 9 23:58:54 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Bump version number and dependencies M ./cabal-install.cabal -4 +5 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install/_darcs/patches/20081010065854-adfee-…

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