Re: [Nix-dev] ghcWithPackages appears broken in nixpkgs HEAD?

2015-03-25 Thread Raahul Kumar
Is there a bug id for this in the ghc bugtracker? It sounds very annoying. Aloha, RK. On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi Michael, my guess is that you've run into a design problem in GHC that causes the compiler to assign randomly differing package IDs

Re: [Nix-dev] ghcWithPackages appears broken in nixpkgs HEAD?

2015-03-25 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Raahul, Is there a bug id for this in the ghc bugtracker? I believe it's https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4012. Best regards, Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] ghcWithPackages appears broken in nixpkgs HEAD?

2015-03-25 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Christian, I have the same problem and tried what you mentioned. It alas doesn't work: sudo nix-store --delete /nix/store/*-ghc-7.8.4 finding garbage collector roots... error: cannot delete path ‘/nix/store/rnxk1a1bz4rgy1rw4973blbfp9f0ic89-ghc-7.8.4’ since it is still

Re: [Nix-dev] ghcWithPackages appears broken in nixpkgs HEAD?

2015-03-25 Thread Christian Lask
Hi Peter! Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to writes: my guess is that you've run into a design problem in GHC that causes the compiler to assign randomly differing package IDs every now and then. The result is that libraries built locally don't fit to ones downloaded from Hydra. The only way out of

Re: [Nix-dev] ghcWithPackages appears broken in nixpkgs HEAD?

2015-03-24 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Michael, my guess is that you've run into a design problem in GHC that causes the compiler to assign randomly differing package IDs every now and then. The result is that libraries built locally don't fit to ones downloaded from Hydra. The only way out of this mess is to garbage collect all

[Nix-dev] ghcWithPackages appears broken in nixpkgs HEAD?

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
I've attached my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix. If I try to rebuild with it using a clone of nixpkgs HEAD, I get the output below. Perhaps I missed it, but I haven't seen anything on the Wiki regarding how best to report and/or diagnose exactly what the source of the failure is, so I'm just posting