#768: Cabal cannot find GHC when using relative path in -w flag ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: tibbe | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Trying to build the network package while standing at the root of a GHC build tree fails to find GHC: {{{ $ cabal install -w inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 network -v2 inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --numeric-version looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in inplace/bin found package tool in inplace/bin/ghc-pkg inplace/bin/ghc-pkg --version inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --supported-languages Reading installed packages... inplace/bin/ghc-pkg dump --global inplace/bin/ghc-pkg dump --user inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --print-libdir Reading available packages... Resolving dependencies... selecting network-2.3 (hackage) and discarding network-2.0, 2.1.0.0, 2.2.0.0, 2.2.0.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.1.1, 2.2.1.2, 2.2.1.3, 2.2.1.4, 2.2.1.5, 2.2.1.6, 2.2.1.7, 2.2.1.8, 2.2.1.9, 2.2.1.10, 2.2.3 and 2.2.3.1 selecting base-4.3.0.0 (installed) selecting ffi-1.0 (installed) selecting ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 (installed) selecting integer-gmp-0.2.0.2 (installed) selecting rts-1.0 (installed) selecting parsec-2.1.0.1 (hackage) and discarding parsec-2.0, 2.1.0.0, 3.0.0, 3.0.1 and 3.1.0 selecting unix-2.4.1.0 (installed) and discarding unix-2.0, 2.2.0.0, 2.3.0.0, 2.3.1.0, 2.3.2.0, 2.4.0.0, 2.4.0.1 and 2.4.0.2 selecting bytestring-0.9.1.8 (installed) and discarding bytestring-0.9, 0.9.0.1, 0.9.0.2, 0.9.0.3, 0.9.0.4, 0.9.1.0, 0.9.1.1, 0.9.1.2, 0.9.1.3, 0.9.1.4, 0.9.1.5, 0.9.1.6 and 0.9.1.7 In order, the following would be installed: parsec-2.1.0.1 (new package) network-2.3 (new package) parsec-2.1.0.1 has already been downloaded. Extracting /home/tibell/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/parsec/2.1.0.1/parsec-2.1.0.1.tar.gz to /tmp/parsec-2.1.0.117969... Configuring parsec-2.1.0.1... cabal: Cannot find the program 'ghc' at 'inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' or on the path cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: network-2.3 depends on parsec-2.1.0.1 which failed to install. parsec-2.1.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/768 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects