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Re: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] ghc-cabal: Cabal.cabal: 42: user error (stray 'else' with no preceding 'if')



[moving to d-haskell, which is better suited for discussions]

Hi Thorsten,

Am Montag, den 21.04.2014, 20:35 +0000 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> to keep “living” what we already achieved, I wanted to binNMU the
> ghc version in m68k/unstable against newer libffi, but could not
> compile it.
> 
> (Colin Watson suggests to start from scratch using his cross-build
> approach – and his patches – anyway, but I thought why lose what
> already works.)
> 
> Log attached, in case someone knows anything. Otherwise, I or someone
> else bored may try Colin’s approach some day.

if you have a working ghc-7.0.4, then upgrading release by release to
the latest version is sensible; I once did that for s390x (but it’s been
quite a while).

Your error:

"inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure --with-ghc="/usr/bin/ghc"
--with-ghc-pkg="/usr/bin/ghc-pkg" --with-gcc="/usr/bin/gcc"
--configure-option=--with-cc="/usr/bin/gcc"
--package-db=/root/ghc-7.0.4/libraries/bootstrapping.conf
--enable-library-profiling --disable-library-for-ghci
--configure-option=CFLAGS=" -fno-stack-protector  "
--configure-option=LDFLAGS="   " --configure-option=CPPFLAGS="   "
--constraint "Cabal == 1.10.2.0" --constraint "hpc == 0.5.0.6"
--constraint "extensible-exceptions == 0.1.1.2" --constraint "ghc-binary
== 0.5.0.2" --constraint "bin-package-db == 0.0.0.0" -- dist-boot
libraries/Cabal
ghc-cabal: Cabal.cabal: 42: user error (stray 'else' with no preceding
'if')
make[2]: *** [libraries/Cabal/dist-boot/package-data.mk] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ghc-7.0.4'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

though is very strange, and I don’t really see how that could happen as
long as you build ghc-7.0.4 with ghc-7.0.4 (i.e. no differing versions
involved), or how it would be related to ffi. Random memory corruptions
are unlikely, are they? Did you check if Cabal.cabal really has a stray
'else'?

Greetings,
Joachim

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