On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:10:28PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
[...] Increasing verbosity does not help, memory consumption goes up after the message "Resolving dependencies..." shows up.
I use ghc 6.8.2 and cabal-install version 0.5.1 using version 1.4.0.1 of the Cabal library.
The only instance of this behaviour that I know of involves using that version of cabal-install with ghc-6.10.1.
http://haskell.org/cabal/FAQ.html#cabal-goes-into-an-infinite-loop--runs-out...
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Are you absolutely sure you are using ghc 6.8 and not 6.10?
Yes:
kokr@copper:~$ ghc -V ; cabal -V The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.8.2 cabal-install version 0.5.1 using version 1.4.0.1 of the Cabal library
Is there a workaround? I would like to avoid fetching & building packages manually.
If you're using ghc 6.10 then the solution is to update to cabal-install 0.6.x. If you're quite sure you are using 6.8 then the bug is unknown. It may still be worth trying upgrading to cabal-install 0.6.x.
I'll try that and report success/failure. Thanks, -- Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" -- Leonardo da Vinci