Re: Problems building cabal-install?

25 Nov 2023

      Viktor Dukhovni  writes:
...
I am having a rather unexpected difficulty building older versions of
cabal-install.  The invariably run into conflicts between "Cabal" and
"Cabal-syntax".
The latter shows up as a dependency of "Cabal" on hackage, but not
in the upstream Git repo.  Is there is there some sort of problem
with the hackage metadata for Cabal 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, ...
It is odd for these to have "Cabal-syntax 3.10.*" as a dependency, with
conflicting definitions.
I believe it is expected that `Cabal-syntax` should appear in the
dependency set of `Cabal`. I had no trouble building `cabal-install`
from upstream `master` (4f53a2feeb17bd54b609ee7cfba3c25348aca997) with
GHC 9.6.3.

Perhaps you could describe more precisely what you are doing?

Cheers,

- Ben

Re: Problems building cabal-install?

Ben Gamari