Possible issue with shared libraries

[j3h]

Henning Thielemann reported the following failure via e-mail:

Can cabal-dev cope with shared libraries?

$ cabal-dev install --enable-shared --constraint="QuickCheck>=2" non-negative
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring non-negative-0.1...
Preprocessing library non-negative-0.1...
Preprocessing executables for non-negative-0.1...
Building non-negative-0.1...
[1 of 4] Compiling Numeric.NonNegative.Class ( src/Numeric/NonNegative/Class.hs, dist/build/Numeric/NonNegative/Class.o )
[2 of 4] Compiling Numeric.NonNegative.Wrapper ( src/Numeric/NonNegative/Wrapper.hs, dist/build/Numeric/NonNegative/Wrapper.o )
[3 of 4] Compiling Numeric.NonNegative.ChunkyPrivate ( src/Numeric/NonNegative/ChunkyPrivate.hs, dist/build/Numeric/NonNegative/ChunkyPrivate.o )
[4 of 4] Compiling Numeric.NonNegative.Chunky ( src/Numeric/NonNegative/Chunky.hs, dist/build/Numeric/NonNegative/Chunky.o )
[1 of 4] Compiling Numeric.NonNegative.Class ( src/Numeric/NonNegative/Class.hs, dist/build/Numeric/NonNegative/Class.dyn_o )
[2 of 4] Compiling Numeric.NonNegative.Wrapper ( src/Numeric/NonNegative/Wrapper.hs, dist/build/Numeric/NonNegative/Wrapper.dyn_o )
[3 of 4] Compiling Numeric.NonNegative.ChunkyPrivate ( src/Numeric/NonNegative/ChunkyPrivate.hs, dist/build/Numeric/NonNegative/ChunkyPrivate.dyn_o )
[4 of 4] Compiling Numeric.NonNegative.Chunky ( src/Numeric/NonNegative/Chunky.hs, dist/build/Numeric/NonNegative/Chunky.dyn_o )
<command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id QuickCheck-2.4.0.1-d485bec543ae623a1e89f94a89fbec36
    (use -v for more information)
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
non-negative-0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

If I omit the --enable-shared flag, then the package can be built. I have installed QuickCheck with --enable-shared.

[tene]

I just ran into this problem. From a clean install of haskell-platform, I ran:

cabal update vim .cabal/config # enable shared cabal install cabal-install cabal install cabal-dev mkdir test cd test cabal-dev install vty

This installed three dependencies (string-qq, utf8-string, and terminfo) and then failed at the end of building vty:

[18 of 18] Compiling Graphics.Vty ( src/Graphics/Vty.hs, dist/build/Graphics/Vty.dyn_o ) : cannot satisfy -package-id terminfo-0.3.2.5-4d1c81be8d263b97c08424418c50ad5a

If I install terminfo globally with 'cabal install' then it moves on to failing in the same way with utf8-string. Installing utf8-string globally, string-qq. Installing string-qq globally lets vty install successfully under cabal-dev. Adding this to the build dependencies in my .cabal file does not help this.

With shared disabled, everything builds and installs fine with cabal-dev.

This really is a clean install:

[sweeks@kweh ~]$ ghc-pkg list --user /home/sweeks/.ghc/x86_64-linux-7.4.2/package.conf.d Cabal-1.16.0.3 setenv-0.1.0 tar-0.4.0.1

Chatting with a few people on IRC, we didn't find any way to resolve this by changing anything's requirements.