[MacPorts] #62606: Strange "ports diag" complaint wrt ghc-8.10.4

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Fri Apr 2 20:24:44 UTC 2021


#62606: Strange "ports diag" complaint wrt ghc-8.10.4
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  Reporter:  GussyFinkNottle  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect           |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal           |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports            |    Version:  2.6.4
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
      Port:  ghc              |
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Comment (by GussyFinkNottle):

 Thank you about the finder! I live and learn. User-friendly software like
 finder can be deeply baffling.

 Sadly, when uninstalling ghc, the first thing done seems to be to
 deactivate it.
 sudo port uninstall ghc fails, with essentially the logfile I attached
 above.
 I'm not terribly bothered. I've got ghc from elsewhere, and if a
 subsequent ghc version turns up in macports, perhaps that will deactivate
 what I currently have.
 I also tried sudo port --force upgrade ghc, which rebuilt/reinstalled many
 ports, and then failed on ghc in the same way.

 For several decades, I've been longing to come across a single-bit cosmic-
 ray induced single-bit error.
 But in that time, I've seen dozens of mismatches where one piece of
 software (tcl?) sees a string through '...' quotes, and
 passes it another (bash?), stripped of quotes (or vice versa).
 If that might be the problem, is there some file, or perhaps database
 entry I can edit by hand, to restore or delete such quotes?
 Or some file or directory I can simply delete?

 Many thanks for your swift attention. There must be many things more
 deserving of it than my little problem.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62606#comment:3>
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