yesod-0.8.0 depends on monad-control-0.2.0.1 which failed to install. yesod-auth-0.4.0 depends on monad-control-0.2.0.1 which failed to install. yesod-core-0.8.0 depends on monad-control-0.2.0.1 which failed to install. yesod-form-0.1.0 depends on monad-control-0.2.0.1 which failed to install. yesod-json-0.1.0 depends on monad-control-0.2.0.1 which failed to install. yesod-persistent-0.1.0 depends on monad-control-0.2.0.1 which failed to install. yesod-static-0.1.0 depends on monad-control-0.2.0.1 which failed to install.
This is what happened after I did cabal update, then cabal-dev install yesod. This is the original error I received. So what else can I try? On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Rogan Creswick <cresw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Michael Litchard <mich...@schmong.org> wrote: >> New information, may be helpful. >> >> I manually installed hamlet 0.8 with cabal-dev, and it seemed to >> install. Here is the message >> >> >> Registering hamlet-0.8.0... >> Installing library in >> /home/mlitchard/hamlet-0.8.0/cabal-dev//lib/hamlet-0.8.0/ghc-6.12.3 >> Registering hamlet-0.8.0... > > It looks like you manually downloaded the hamlet-0.8.0.tar.gz, > unpacked it, and ran cabal-dev install from inside there -- is that > right? (There's nothing wrong with doing it that way, but it doesn't > quite do what you expected, based on the rest of your email. Also, if > my assumption is wrong, then the rest of my advice may not help.) > > First, it's important to know that cabal-dev sandboxes everything it > can. If you want to install hamlet into your .cabal directory, then > you need to use cabal, not cabal-dev. Cabal-dev is meant to keep > everything for a given project separate from everything else -- in > this way you can have multiple projects that depend on conflicting > libraries building at the same time, and it also means that > coincidental changes to your user package database won't cause > spurious *successes* when you build something, which is a surprisingly > common problem. Unfortunately this means that the first time you > build a project with cabal-dev, it tends to take a long time (it has > to build everything it depends on). > > Now, there are (at least) two important take-away points / > implications of using cabal-dev: > > (1) cabal-dev won't install a library into a standard location. > That's by design, so you don't usually want to cabal-dev install > dependencies manually. > (2) cabal-dev uses the local hackage cache to select packages in the > same way cabal does (cabal-dev actually just uses cabal to do this). > >> mlitchard@apotheosis:~/yesod-0.8.0$ cabal-dev install >> Resolving dependencies... >> cabal: cannot configure yesod-0.8.0. It requires hamlet ==0.8.* >> There is no available version of hamlet that satisfies ==0.8.* > > I think you just need to run 'cabal update' so cabal-dev can see the > latest version of hamlet, after which you can cabal-dev install yesod. > > There are a couple other things to try if that doesn't work for some reason. > > --Rogan > > >> >> I noticed it did not install in the $HOME/.cabal/ path. How do make >> sure it does that? >> I think if I can get it to install in the right place this will work out. >> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Rogan Creswick <cresw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Michael Litchard <mich...@schmong.org> >>> wrote: >>>> mlitchard@apotheosis:~/monad-control$ cabal install >>>> Resolving dependencies... >>>> Configuring monad-control-0.2.0.1... >>>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: >>>> monad-control-0.2.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: >>>> ExitFailure 11 >>>> >>>> >>>> note: I've been trying to use the cab command to manage my packages, I >>>> get the same error as above when I use cab instead of cabal.I mention >>>> this just in case there is some unforseen problem having to do with >>>> cab/cabal interaction. >>>> >>>> Has anyone experienced this problem, or know what I can do to get more >>>> useful error messages that might reveal the cause of the breakage? >>> >>> You might learn more by issuing the configure / build steps manually >>> (I think `cabal configure` will produce an error). Upping the >>> verbosity will also help: >>> >>> # get pages and pages of details: >>> $ cabal install --verbose=3 >>> >>> I would first suggest trying cabal-dev, though (cab can delegate to >>> cabal-dev now too, but I haven't played with it yet). >>> >>> $ cabal-dev install yesod-0.8 >>> >>> will either work or fail in a way that we can more easily reproduce. >>> >>> --Rogan >>> >> > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe