I wiped and reinstalled the Haskell platform (Haskell.org: cabal, stack, ghc), but now no addon package will install properly. Cabal always end with ExitFailure1. Probably because not being able to find a dependency. Most of the times however it is the main package it cannot resolve for some reason. Any experience with that phenomenon?
Local stack build
-- While building custom Setup.hs for package json-lesson-0.1.0.0 using:
/Users/administrator/.stack/setup-exe-cache/x86_64-osx/Cabal-simple_mPHDZzAJ_2.2.0.1_ghc-8.4.3 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-osx/Cabal-2.2.0.1 configure --with-ghc=/Users/administrator/.stack/programs/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.4.3/bin/ghc --with-ghc-pkg=/Users/administrator/.stack/programs/x86_64-osx/ghc-8.4.3/bin/ghc-pkg --user --package-db=clear --package-db=global --package-db=/Users/administrator/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/pkgdb --package-db=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/pkgdb --libdir=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/lib --bindir=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/bin --datadir=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/share --libexecdir=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/libexec --sysconfdir=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/etc --docdir=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/doc/json-lesson-0.1.0.0 --htmldir=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/doc/json-lesson-0.1.0.0 --haddockdir=/Users/administrator/Desktop/Haskell/json-lesson/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx/lts-12.5/8.4.3/doc/json-lesson-0.1.0.0 --dependency=aeson=aeson-1.3.1.1-v8c5j6KkT8PoXkOVjikF --dependency=base=base-4.11.1.0 --dependency=bytestring=bytestring-0.10.8.2 --dependency=text=text-1.2.3.0
Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
Using cabal install:
MacBook-2:Haskell administrator$ cabal install aeson
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-nopie' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]
Resolving dependencies...
Downloading base-compat-0.10.4...
Downloading dlist-0.8.0.4...
Configuring dlist-0.8.0.4...
Downloading tagged-0.8.6...
Downloading th-abstraction-0.2.8.0...
Configuring tagged-0.8.6...
Configuring base-compat-0.10.4...
Configuring th-abstraction-0.2.8.0...
Building dlist-0.8.0.4...
Building tagged-0.8.6...
Building base-compat-0.10.4...
Building th-abstraction-0.2.8.0...
Installed dlist-0.8.0.4
Downloading time-locale-compat-0.1.1.4...
Configuring time-locale-compat-0.1.1.4...
Building time-locale-compat-0.1.1.4...
Installed tagged-0.8.6
Downloading uuid-types-1.0.3...
Configuring uuid-types-1.0.3...
Installed time-locale-compat-0.1.1.4
Building uuid-types-1.0.3...
Failed to install uuid-types-1.0.3
Build log ( /Users/administrator/.cabal/logs/ghc-8.4.3/uuid-types-1.0.3-tE9Bfk2PgXDUPgbtamBdI.log ):
cabal: Entering directory '/var/folders/81/50s00bl11pv7fn8dw4n0w03m0000gn/T/cabal-tmp-5513/uuid-types-1.0.3'
Configuring uuid-types-1.0.3...
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-nopie' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]
Preprocessing library for uuid-types-1.0.3..
Building library for uuid-types-1.0.3..
<command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id hashable-1.2.7.0-3hrKWzET808E40baaqgc23
(use -v for more information)
cabal: Leaving directory '/var/folders/81/50s00bl11pv7fn8dw4n0w03m0000gn/T/cabal-tmp-5513/uuid-types-1.0.3'
Installed th-abstraction-0.2.8.0
Installed base-compat-0.10.4
Updating documentation index
/Users/administrator/Library/Haskell/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.4.3/index.html
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
aeson-1.4.0.0-64eUw61rbC49Aocs9eETca depends on aeson-1.4.0.0 which failed to
install.
uuid-types-1.0.3-tE9Bfk2PgXDUPgbtamBdI failed during the building phase. The
exception was:
ExitFailure 1
Solution to the broken package issues with Cabal: in OSX there's a 'Frameworks' directory. This holds a Haskell-framework, that you need to delete, otherwise ghc stays active in the background and package building by cabal will fail. In general you need to delete the (hidden) .cabal, .stack and .ghc directories, as well the Haskell framework in 'Frameworks'. There are also two (!) Haskell directories in ~/Library and ~/User/Library you'd better delete.
Stumbled across this when looking for the Rails framework. Thank you all for contributing with possible solutions!