March 2009 - cabal-devel

[Hackage] #462: Automatic rebuild of depending packages once failed dependency re-uploaded and builds.
by Hackage 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

#462: Automatic rebuild of depending packages once failed dependency re-uploaded and builds. --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: golubovsky | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: HackageDB Component: hackageDB website | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.10.1 Platform: | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Given these packages: C depends on B, B depends on A. A failed to build, B and C were uploaded later and failed also. Later, A was fixed, bumped version, re-uploaded. B did not need fixing, so remained untouched. C was also fixed, bumped version, re-uploaded. Finally, A rebuilt OK, B was not scheduled for rebuilding, C failed because B was still failed. It is requested that once a package that failed to build is updated and builds, all packages immediately dependent upon it are scheduled for rebuild. Then the same logic applies to those that rebuilt OK (their dependencies are scheduled for rebuild). Thanks. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/462> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #207: Jumping to code every and anywhere: What about installing source files and a tag file along with haddock and lib files ?
by Hackage 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

#207: Jumping to code every and anywhere: What about installing source files and a tag file along with haddock and lib files ? --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: misc | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Keywords: tags source tagfile Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- == Introduction == I personally depend on tags because the source code only tells what is really going on. So it would be incredible useful to not only get information using ghci after loading libs but also beeing able to jump to all functions you might be using anywhere (The only solution providing this in all cases is uning tags, right? Because cpp defines can introduce new functions.. To be able to jump to the code source must be installed along with libs (the way you can optionally install haddock docs) == Use case: == setup configure --with-tags --install-source (or something like that) setup build && setup install do this for each dependency given in the .cabal file (VIM:) let tags+=system('ghc-pkg --query-tagfile-location haskell98-1.0.0.0') == Issues: == * Which tool to generate tag files? * ghc(i) when targeting ghc * the hasktags program shipping with ghc * some others? * Tagfile path type relative or absolute? * absolute: After moving/ installing the sources the tagfile must be patched * relative: Do editors take the right base directory to find source files? * When to invoke the tagfile generating program? * Perfect case would be after all preprocessing has been done (Thus the tagging program should understand line number changing comments!) * Template Haskell? ( This is really tricky I think ) * Hmm sorted tagfiles would be useful as well :) == alternatives ? == If you do not think this is useful (mandatory?) how do you lookup code? (Yes I know hoogle :) perhaps using Eclipse or Visual Studio? I'd like to start implementing this somehow the next weeks. So don't hesitate and start discussing Marc Weber -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/207> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #466: libdir does not follow prefix on windows
by Hackage 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

#466: libdir does not follow prefix on windows ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.8 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Ghcversion: 6.8.3 Platform: Windows | ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- On Windows, for some reason, the `--libdir` is set independently of the `--prefix`. This is actually quite annoying because it's not discoverable and when you do discover it you've got to set the libdir along with the prefix on the command line or in the config file. Apparently there was some reason why it is done this way. We should find out what that reason is and determine if it is valid and if so if there is any way to make it work in a less annoying way. If we think it will not break anything then changing the default is trivial. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/466> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #244: Add Changelog summary feature to sdist
by Hackage 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

#244: Add Changelog summary feature to sdist ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- In a discussion with Audrey Tang, she mentioned that a very nice feature of CPAN which she missed in Hackage was standardized changes files. It seems to me that one way to acheive this would be to add a --changelog flag to sdist (or maybe make default). This call 'darcs changes' and copy into the ChangeLog everything up to 2 tags ago. (2 tags because the first tag might be you preparing for a release). I'd imagine parsing would be dead easy: 'lines' to split it up into individual entries, and then take until you hit a 'tagged' entry. If the resulting list is length of 1, then take again. So you'd go 'runhaskell Setup sdist --changelog', and ChangeLog in the tarball would have, say, for Monadius: ---- Wed Feb 20 18:37:42 EST 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com tagged 0.91 Wed Feb 20 18:37:29 EST 2008 gwern0(a)gmail.com * misc improvements: newtype, cabal, fmt Fri Dec 7 16:23:53 EST 2007 gwern0(a)gmail.com * rm extra source-files The line was originally there because there is an icon for Monadius in the source-files and some sort of Windows resource text file telling Windows to use it; I'm removing the mention of them in the .cabal because I don't think Cabal handles that right now. Thu Dec 6 16:30:31 EST 2007 gwern0(a)gmail.com * whitespace changes, add haskell98 to dependencies Tue Dec 4 13:46:38 EST 2007 gwern0(a)gmail.com * mv cabal field so hackage doesn't complain Tue Dec 4 13:10:47 EST 2007 gwern0(a)gmail.com * cabal fixes Tue Dec 4 08:32:25 EST 2007 gwern0(a)gmail.com tagged 0.91 ---- At this point, Hackage could be updated to link to it in the same way as it does for the .cabal file. That way, people could then easily take a look and see what's new since the last version. (Said facility is currently a little difficult unless the package authors manually maintain a ChangeLog and specifically include it into the tarball; you'd still have to either go to the repo or download the tarball simply to find out what's different from the older packages.) --gwern -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/244> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #331: pkg-config error messages could be better
by Hackage 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

#331: pkg-config error messages could be better ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.4.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Currently if you `cabal install X11-xft` but don't have the xft development package installed you get this during configure: {{{ cabal: The pkg-config package xft is required but it could not be found. }}} What is not immediately clear is that this is a native package and thus not something that `cabal-install` could have gone and fetched. So the wording of this message could be improved. Perhaps mentioning both in general terms and then specifically. For example saying that the development files for xft are not installed and that the user probably can and should install a native package that provides it. Specifically it's looking for a xft.pc file that pkg-config uses to tell is what compiler flags to use to use xft. A related problem is that the message is somewhat lost in the noise because we print the error to stdout rather than throwing it as an exception that we could print in the final summary. This problem is particulary bad when we have to have error message cross process boundaries, ie when cabal-install invokes a setup program. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/331> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #515: --extra-lib-dirs= should add -R/-rpath to hsc2hs calls
by Hackage 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

#515: --extra-lib-dirs= should add -R/-rpath to hsc2hs calls ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.8 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Ghcversion: Platform: | ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Currently the `--extra-lib-dirs=` flag is only used to add extra `-L` flags in calls to `gcc`, `hsc2hs` etc. On systems where `--extra-lib- dirs=` is necessary it's almost always the case that we also need `-R`/`-rpath` too. Apparently `-rpath` is somewhat controversial and some people argue against using it. However one case where it is clearly necessary is in invoking `hsc2hs`. This is because `hsc2hs` compiles, links and runs a C program. The program is run once on the host machine and never installed or distributed. So all the usual arguments against `-rpath` do not apply. Hard coding the paths of libs is fine since the program is only used once, in the build tree. It's also essential for it to actually work. Here's an example log from someone hitting this problem: {{{ $ cabal install pcre-light --extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/include --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/lib Resolving dependencies... 'pcre-light-0.3.1' is cached. Configuring pcre-light-0.3.1... Preprocessing library pcre-light-0.3.1... dist/build/Text/Regex/PCRE/Light/Base_hsc_make: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory running dist/build/Text/Regex/PCRE/Light/Base_hsc_make failed command was: dist/build/Text/Regex/PCRE/Light/Base_hsc_make >dist/build/Text/Regex/PCRE/Light/Base.hs }}} On this system it appears that `/usr/local/lib` is not on the default static linker path, or the default dynamic linker path. So we need `-L/usr/local/lib` for the static linker and `-R/usr/local/lib` for the dynamic linker. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/515> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #463: Do not work in Windows Vista
by Hackage 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

#463: Do not work in Windows Vista ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: Tonal | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: cabal-install-0.6 Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.10.1 Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ My Environment: Os: Windows Vista Home Ru + sp1 User name: Леново ghc 6.10.1 (Cabal-1.6.0.1 from installation) cabal-install-0.6.0 Other lib: HTTP-3001.1.5 zlib-0.5.0.0 Cabal-install compile and link. Bat all commands not work. For example: {{{ C:\Lang\Haskell\ghc>cabal list Config file C:\Users\Леново\AppData\Roaming\cabal\config not found. Writing default configuration to C:\Users\Леново\AppData\Roaming\cabal\config cabal: CreateDirectory: does not exist (!8AB5<5 =5 C405BAO =09B8 C:070==K9 ?CBL.) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/463> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #445: Simple builds ignore .buildinfo
by Hackage 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

#445: Simple builds ignore .buildinfo ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: awick | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.3 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- It would be convenient if Simple builds would look for buildinfo files, instead of just ignoring them. It's sometimes convenient to have the configure script run as a separate phase (for example, when you're configuring a bunch of separate cabal packages) instead of re-running the same configure tests every time, and this would help. There's an obvious workaround (setting the type to 'Configure' and then adding an empty 'configure' script), but this is tedious. I've attached a simple example. The .buildinfo file tells Cabal to build Test2 in addition to Test1. If you set the type to Simple, it only builds Test1. If you set it to 'Configure', it runs the empty configure script and then builds both Test1 and Test2. It'd be nicer if 'Simple' caused both Test1 and Test2 to be built, as well. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/445> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #429: Strange error that seems related to repos field in config
by Hackage 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

#429: Strange error that seems related to repos field in config ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: waern | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.10.1 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- I'm reporting this although I don't really know what the problem is. I installed cabal-install using GHC 6.10.1. When I tried to use it, it complained that the it couldn't open the file 'Ê', or some other strange, seemingly random, one-character long file name. An strace revealed that just before trying to open the file it reads the repos: field from the config file in ~/.cabal. That field was set to "hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive". I tried removing the initial "hackage.haskell.org:", and them cabal-install works. Not sure what this is, but I couldn't find something about it in the bug tracker after a quick search. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/429> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #427: how to access temporary build-files/logs?
by Hackage 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

#427: how to access temporary build-files/logs? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: claus | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.3 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- when trying to debug an installation failure, it would be most useful to be able to keep the temporary build files (similar to ghc's -keep* options). Apart from being able to look at things like `config.log`, it would also allow to experiment with patched commands from the verbose build log (which needs the temporary files still present). -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/427> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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