What is causing the "Unrecognized field abi" warning?
This shows up in more recent builds of my packages on Travis CI, e.g. https://travis-ci.org/haskell-opengl/OpenGL/jobs/93814917#L296, but I don't have a clue what's causing it (GHC? cabal? Something else?), if I should ignore it or if I should somehow act on that. :-/ My gut feeling is that it's GHC, but I might be wrong... Cheers, S.
Hello Sven, Recent versions of Cabal output an 'abi' field to the installed package database which records what the abi hash of the package is. Old versions GHC (or more specifically, ghc-pkg) are not able to interpret this, so they print an error; however, the error is harmless. If the messages are bothersome, we could setup Cabal to not print out fields if it knows that GHC doesn't support them. Edward Excerpts from Sven Panne's message of 2015-11-29 12:39:58 -0800:
This shows up in more recent builds of my packages on Travis CI, e.g. https://travis-ci.org/haskell-opengl/OpenGL/jobs/93814917#L296, but I don't have a clue what's causing it (GHC? cabal? Something else?), if I should ignore it or if I should somehow act on that. :-/ My gut feeling is that it's GHC, but I might be wrong...
Cheers, S.
2015-11-29 21:42 GMT+01:00 Edward Z. Yang
[...] If the messages are bothersome, we could setup Cabal to not print out fields if it knows that GHC doesn't support them.
I would very much appreciate that, especially given the fact that "old versions of GHC" include GHC HEAD from Herbert's ppa. ;-) Cheers, S.
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