Hello again, After some more investigation, it seems that conditional compilation does not work properly. All pragmas such as #if some-cabal-defined-macro (...) always evaluate to true. I made sure to have cpphs installed but that did not solve my problem. Any idea? Thank you Regards J-C ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jean-christophe mincke <jeanchristophe.mincke@gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:08 PM Subject: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Error compiling transformers-base-0.4.1 (debian 64 bits, ghc-7.4.2) To: "haskell-cafe@haskell.org" <haskell-cafe@haskell.org> Thank you Sjoerd, Unfortunately this does not work. I think the problem is linked to the evaluation of the condition (in Base.hs) #if !MIN_VERSION_base(4,4,0) && HS_TRANSFORMERS_BASE__ORPHANS Just as a test, I modified the file and added the following lines A. negation of min_version #if *!*MIN_VERSION_base(4,4,0) rgfyfgruyfgreuy -- making sure the compilation fails #endif B #if MIN_VERSION_base(4,4,0) rgfyfgruyfgreuy -- making sure the compilation fails #endif In both case the compilations failed (cabal clean, configure, build). That is, it seems that the #if always evaluate to true... I am surely missing something here... Regards J-C On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@w3future.com> wrote:
There's a flag to turn it off, does that work? Try cabal install transformers-base -f-OrphanInstances
Sjoerd
On May 9, 2013, at 2:47 PM, jean-christophe mincke < jeanchristophe.mincke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Café
I am running into problems when installing transformers-base-0.4.1.
Has anyone an idea about what is going on?
REM : this is a "brand new" debian install, I have just install ghc, cabal install cabal-install etc.
Thank you
very much
J-C
cabal install transformers-base Resolving dependencies... Downloading transformers-base-0.4.1... Configuring transformers-base-0.4.1... Preprocessing library transformers-base-0.4.1... Building transformers-base-0.4.1... [1 of 1] Compiling Control.Monad.Base ( src/Control/Monad/Base.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Base.o )
src/Control/Monad/Base.hs:63:10: Duplicate instance declarations: instance Applicative (L.ST <http://l.st/> s) -- Defined at src/Control/Monad/Base.hs:63:10 instance Applicative (L.ST <http://l.st/> s) -- Defined in `Control.Applicative'
src/Control/Monad/Base.hs:67:10: Duplicate instance declarations: instance Applicative (S.ST <http://s.st/> s) -- Defined at src/Control/Monad/Base.hs:67:10 instance Applicative (S.ST <http://s.st/> s) -- Defined in `Control.Applicative' cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: transformers-base-0.4.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe