Make sure you are building the dynamic / shared lib versions and using
cabal install 1.18
On Friday, March 14, 2014, Matthias Fischmann
hi,
this time i am running 7.8 rc2 (binary for x64 on debian testing). after a successful '/usr/bin/cabal install cabal-install', i am running into different instances of this:
| [...] | [25 of 25] Compiling Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.Perm ( Text/ParserCombinators/Parsec/Perm.hs, dist/build/Text/ParserCombinators/Parsec/Perm.o ) | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSmtl-2.1.2-ghc7.8.0.20140228 | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status | Failed to install parsec-3.1.5 | cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: | network-2.4.2.2 depends on parsec-3.1.5 which failed to install. | parsec-3.1.5 failed during the building phase. The exception was: | ExitFailure 1
what makes me suspect this could be relevant to this list is that the symptoms are weirdly sporadic. my story:
1. cabal install string-conversions fails because -lHStext-1.1.0.1 cannot be found.
2. ghc-pkg unregister <a few packages>
3. cabal install network (which pulls text) => fails (see above)
4. cabal install string-conversions => works!
i will read up on dynamic linking in ghc now.
cheers, matthias _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org javascript:; http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs