When I try to install hlint I get errors surrounding old-time-1.1.0.3

Question

I first tried to install Hlint. cabal install hlint but then I got the error:

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
cpphs-1.20.2 depends on old-time-1.1.0.3 which failed to install.
haskell-src-exts-1.18.2 depends on old-time-1.1.0.3 which failed to install.
hlint-1.9.37 depends on old-time-1.1.0.3 which failed to install.
old-time-1.1.0.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 77

Then I tried to install ghc-mod since I read that hlint is a dependency of that package(?). Thinking that it might resolve the problem. So i did cabal install ghc-mod which gave me the error.

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
cpphs-1.20.2 depends on old-time-1.1.0.3 which failed to install.
ghc-mod-5.6.0.0 depends on old-time-1.1.0.3 which failed to install.
haskell-src-exts-1.17.1 depends on old-time-1.1.0.3 which failed to install.
hlint-1.9.35 depends on old-time-1.1.0.3 which failed to install.
old-time-1.1.0.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 77

So it seems to be the same problem, around my the package old-time-1.1.0.3.

Construct

If you want any real hope of such an issue being solved you must include much, much more detail (at the very least the output of the failing command with -v3). A quick google search shows this is likely related to a broken installation of gcc (or ghc is using a different c compiler than it should be) – Stylopodium

I moved your solution to a community wiki answer. – Gaye

Answer 1

There are lots of variables that could be at play to explain what's going on, including cabal-install and ghc versions. It would be useful if you included the cabal --version and ghc --version output in your question.

That said: I'd recommend trying out the installation using Stack. Once you have Stack installed (on POSIX systems, usually sufficient to run curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh), you can install with stack --resolver lts-6.16 --install-ghc --no-system-ghc install hlint.

Kenner

Answer 2

The best way to know where it fails is to go through each failed package and install them one after the other.

I had issue with haskell-src-exts in which showed up in hlint and when I tried to cabal install haskell-src-exts it was happythat wasn't properly installed.

Roveover

Answer 3

Solution by OP.

Modify your cabal config file (you can verify the location by running "cabal user-config init") to contain the following lines:

extra-prog-path: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\msys\usr\bin
extra-lib-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\lib
extra-include-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\include

Monetmoneta

Answer 4

Are you on Windows or Linux? What does ghc --version say? What about ghc-pkg old-time? I recommend trying to run cabal install old-time directly, which should reproduce the error directly.

Smutch