#633: Cabal-1.8.0.2 fails to build packages for hugs: --inplace is not supported with Hugs ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: nomeata | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- For the Debian packages, we use Cabal to build packages for ghc6 and for hugs. Unfortunately, with Cabal-1.8, the hugs support is broken: {{{ debian/hlibrary.setup configure --hugs --prefix=/usr -v2 --builddir=dist- hugs Configuring binary-0.5.0.2... Flags chosen: applicative-in-base=True, split-base=True, bytestring-in-base=True Dependency array -any: using array Dependency base >1 && <1: using base Dependency containers -any: using containers Using Cabal-1.8.0.2 compiled by ghc-6.12 Using compiler: hugs Using install prefix: /usr Binaries installed in: /usr/bin Libraries installed in: /usr/lib/hugs/packages/binary Private binaries installed in: /usr/libexec Data files installed in: /usr/share/binary-0.5.0.2 Documentation installed in: /usr/share/doc/binary-0.5.0.2 No alex found Using ar found on system at: /usr/bin/ar No c2hs found Using cpphs version 1.9 found on system at: /usr/bin/cpphs Using ffihugs found on system at: /usr/bin/ffihugs Using gcc version 4.4.3 found on system at: /usr/bin/gcc Using ghc version 6.12.1 found on system at: /usr/bin/ghc Using ghc-pkg version 6.12.1 found on system at: /usr/bin/ghc-pkg No greencard found Using haddock version 2.6.0 found on system at: /usr/bin/haddock No happy found No hmake found Using hsc2hs version 0.67 found on system at: /usr/bin/hsc2hs Using hscolour version 1.15 found on system at: /usr/bin/HsColour Using hugs found on system at: /usr/bin/hugs No jhc found Using ld found on system at: /usr/bin/ld No lhc found No lhc-pkg found No nhc98 found No pkg-config found Using ranlib found on system at: /usr/bin/ranlib Using strip found on system at: /usr/bin/strip Using tar found on system at: /bin/tar debian/hlibrary.setup build --builddir=dist-hugs Preprocessing library binary-0.5.0.2... Building binary-0.5.0.2... Registering binary-0.5.0.2... hlibrary.setup: --inplace is not supported with Hugs }}} The reason seems to be the build function in ./Distribution/Simple/Build.hs: {{{ build pkg_descr lbi flags suffixes = do let distPref = fromFlag (buildDistPref flags) verbosity = fromFlag (buildVerbosity flags) initialBuildSteps distPref pkg_descr lbi verbosity suffixes setupMessage verbosity "Building" (packageId pkg_descr) internalPackageDB <- createInternalPackageDB distPref withLibLBI pkg_descr lbi $ \lib clbi -> do info verbosity "Building library..." buildLib verbosity pkg_descr lbi lib clbi installedPkgInfo <- generateRegistrationInfo verbosity pkg_descr lib lbi clbi True{-inplace-} distPref -- Register the library in-place, so exes can depend -- on internally defined libraries. registerPackage verbosity installedPkgInfo pkg_descr lbi True{-inplace-} internalPackageDB -- Use the internal package db for the exes. let lbi' = lbi { withPackageDB = withPackageDB lbi ++ [internalPackageDB] } withExeLBI pkg_descr lbi' $ \exe clbi -> do info verbosity $ "Building executable " ++ exeName exe ++ "..." buildExe verbosity pkg_descr lbi' exe clbi }}} Here, the inplace flag is unconditionally set to true. But in ./Distribution/Simple/Register.hs, we have {{{ registerPackageHugs verbosity installedPkgInfo pkg lbi inplace _packageDb = do when inplace $ die "--inplace is not supported with Hugs" let installDirs = absoluteInstallDirs pkg lbi NoCopyDest createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose verbosity True (libdir installDirs) writeUTF8File (libdir installDirs "package.conf") (showInstalledPackageInfo installedPkgInfo) }}} I’d be grateful for a quick work-around or patch, as this is holding up the transition to ghc 6.12 in Debian. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/633 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects