installing ghc fails

[Inky 788]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 09:03, Inky 788 wrote:
>
>> I just tried installing pandoc, which requires ghc (among other things), and
>> it seems that there was a problem configuring ghc.
>>
>> I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.7, Intel. This is just after a fresh install of
>> MacPorts 1.7.1-10.5-Leopard. I'm brand new to MacPorts. Xcode tools is
>> installed on this machine, as is X11, and OS X's Software Update says
>> everything is up to date.
>>
>> Here's the terminal output:
>>
>> ~~~ snip ~~~
>
>> cmm/OptimizationFuel.hs: openBinaryFile: resource busy (file is locked)
>
> There are many problems compiling ghc; you can search the issue tracker if you're interested. Can you try cleaning and trying again? Just to see if this was a one-time fluke or something repeatable.
>
> sudo port clean ghc
> sudo port install ghc
>


Thanks. Seems to have worked:

~~~ snip ~~~
$ sudo port install ghc
--->  Fetching ghc
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for ghc
--->  Extracting ghc
--->  Applying patches to ghc
--->  Configuring ghc
--->  Building ghc
--->  Staging ghc into destroot
--->  Installing ghc @6.10.3_1+darwin_9_i386
--->  Activating ghc @6.10.3_1+darwin_9_i386
--->  Cleaning ghc
~~~ /snip ~~~

Though, when I went on to try `sudo port install pandoc` again, this
time it fails on haddock:

~~~ snip ~~~
$ sudo port install pandoc
Password:
--->  Fetching hs-ghc-paths
--->  Attempting to fetch ghc-paths-0.1.0.5.tar.gz from
http://distfiles.macports.org/hs-ghc-paths
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for hs-ghc-paths
--->  Extracting hs-ghc-paths
--->  Configuring hs-ghc-paths
--->  Building hs-ghc-paths
--->  Staging hs-ghc-paths into destroot
--->  Installing hs-ghc-paths @0.1.0.5_0
--->  Activating hs-ghc-paths @0.1.0.5_0
--->  Cleaning hs-ghc-paths
--->  Fetching haddock
--->  Attempting to fetch haddock-2.4.1.tar.gz from
http://distfiles.macports.org/haddock
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for haddock
--->  Extracting haddock
--->  Configuring haddock
--->  Building haddock
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command "cd
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_haddock/work/haddock-2.4.1
&& ./Setup build -v" returned error 1
Command output: Building executable: haddock...
Creating dist/build/haddock (and its parents)
Creating dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp (and its parents)
/opt/local/bin/ghc -o dist/build/haddock/haddock --make
-hide-all-packages -no-user-package-conf -i
-idist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp -isrc -idist/build/autogen
-Idist/build/autogen -Idist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp -optP-include
-optPdist/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -odir
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp -hidir dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp
-stubdir dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp -package Cabal-1.6.0.3
-package array-0.2.0.0 -package base-4.1.0.0 -package
containers-0.2.0.1 -package directory-1.0.0.3 -package
filepath-1.1.0.2 -package ghc-6.10.3 -package ghc-paths-0.1.0.5
-package haskell98-1.0.1.0 -package pretty-1.0.1.0 -O
-funbox-strict-fields -O2 -XCPP -XPatternGuards -XDeriveDataTypeable
-XScopedTypeVariables -XMagicHash src/Main.hs

src/Main.hs:1:39:
    Warning: -XPatternSignatures is deprecated: use
-XScopedTypeVariables or pragma {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables#-}
instead

src/Haddock/Utils.hs:1:13:
    Warning: -XPatternSignatures is deprecated: use
-XScopedTypeVariables or pragma {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables#-}
instead
[ 1 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Backends.HH ( src/Haddock/Backends/HH.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Backends/HH.o )
[ 2 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Backends.HH2 (
src/Haddock/Backends/HH2.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Backends/HH2.o )
[ 3 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Utils.BlockTable (
src/Haddock/Utils/BlockTable.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Utils/BlockTable.o )
[ 4 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Utils.Html ( src/Haddock/Utils/Html.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Utils/Html.o )
[ 5 of 24] Compiling Paths_haddock    (
dist/build/autogen/Paths_haddock.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Paths_haddock.o )
[ 6 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Version  ( src/Haddock/Version.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Version.o )
[ 7 of 24] Compiling Haddock.GHC.Utils ( src/Haddock/GHC/Utils.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/GHC/Utils.o )
[ 8 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Exception ( src/Haddock/Exception.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Exception.o )
[ 9 of 24] Compiling Haddock.DocName  ( src/Haddock/DocName.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/DocName.o )
[10 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Types    ( src/Haddock/Types.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Types.o )
[11 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Utils    ( src/Haddock/Utils.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Utils.o )
[12 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Options  ( src/Haddock/Options.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Options.o )
[13 of 24] Compiling Haddock.GHC.Typecheck (
src/Haddock/GHC/Typecheck.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/GHC/Typecheck.o )
[14 of 24] Compiling Haddock.GHC      ( src/Haddock/GHC.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/GHC.o )
[15 of 24] Compiling Haddock.Interface.AttachInstances (
src/Haddock/Interface/AttachInstances.hs,
dist/build/haddock/haddock-tmp/Haddock/Interface/AttachInstances.o )

src/Haddock/Interface/AttachInstances.hs:94:17:
    Ambiguous occurrence `funTyConName'
    It could refer to either
`Haddock.Interface.AttachInstances.funTyConName', defined at
src/Haddock/Interface/AttachInstances.hs:108:0
                          or `TypeRep.funTyConName', imported from
TypeRep at src/Haddock/Interface/AttachInstances.hs:26:0-13

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: haddock
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
~~~~ /snip ~~~~

I tried the same commands you suggested for getting past the error
with installing ghc (clean, then install again) but got the same error
again.