selfupdate fails: ghc & gcc47

[Sean Farley]

Phil Dobbin writes:

> On 25/03/2013 15:13, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Phil Dobbin <phildobbin at gmail.com
>> <mailto:phildobbin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     It's not installed. Neither are half a dozen other ports it keeps
>>     trying to install which finally culminates in ghc (sorry for the
>>     ugly looking reply; I'm using the abomination that is Google's Gmail
>>     interface).
>>
>>
>> Then I would wonder what you have installed via macports that requires
>> it. There isn't a whole lot in the way of end-user ports that actually
>> depend on haskell; only pandoc comes to mind offhand. (And xmonad, but
>> that wouldn't pull in an archiver, whereas pandoc's deps likely do.)
>
>
> Good call, Brandon: it was pandoc. I removed it & all's well. Job's a
> good 'un. Thanks.

Something is really, really wonky with haskell in macports. I noticed
this when I was updating the dependency tree of pandoc. If I tried to
build hs-QuickCheck (which depends on hs-random) it would fail if
hs-random was installed from binary saying that hs-random needed to be
built with --library-profiling ... which should have happened since it's
using the haskell portgroup. If I uninstall hs-random and force it to
install from source (and build it on my machine) then all is well.

Does anyone have a clue to what's going on?