Trouble when calling cabal configure

[mvrozanti]

First of all, I want to thank you for the awesome work. It's a bummer this is discontinued.

Anyways, maybe someone is also having the same problem when cabal configure is called:

Warning: The configure command is a part of the legacy v1 style of cabal
usage.

Please switch to using either the new project style and the new-configure
command or the legacy v1-configure alias as new-style projects will become the
default in the next version of cabal-install. Please file a bug if you cannot
replicate a working v1- use case with the new-style commands.

For more information, see: https://wiki.haskell.org/Cabal/NewBuild

Resolving dependencies...
Warning: solver failed to find a solution:
Could not resolve dependencies:
[__0] trying: c-repl-0.1 (user goal)
[__1] unknown package: readline (dependency of c-repl)
[__1] fail (backjumping, conflict set: c-repl, readline)
After searching the rest of the dependency tree exhaustively, these were the
goals I've had most trouble fulfilling: c-repl, readline
Trying configure anyway.
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( dist/setup/setup.hs, dist/setup/Main.o )

dist/setup/setup.hs:1:1: error:
    Could not find module ‘Prelude’
    There are files missing in the ‘base-4.12.0.0’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
  |
1 | #! /usr/bin/env runhaskell
  | ^

dist/setup/setup.hs:10:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘Control.Applicative’
    There are files missing in the ‘base-4.12.0.0’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
10 |   import Control.Applicative
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:11:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘Distribution.Simple’
    There are files missing in the ‘Cabal-2.4.0.1’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
11 |   import Distribution.Simple
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:12:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘Distribution.PackageDescription’
    There are files missing in the ‘Cabal-2.4.0.1’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
12 |   import Distribution.PackageDescription
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:13:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘Distribution.Simple.LocalBuildInfo’
    There are files missing in the ‘Cabal-2.4.0.1’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
13 |   import Distribution.Simple.LocalBuildInfo
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:14:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘Distribution.Simple.Setup’
    There are files missing in the ‘Cabal-2.4.0.1’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
14 |   import Distribution.Simple.Setup
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:15:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘Distribution.Simple.Program’
    There are files missing in the ‘Cabal-2.4.0.1’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
15 |   import Distribution.Simple.Program
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:16:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘Distribution.Simple.Utils’
    There are files missing in the ‘Cabal-2.4.0.1’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
16 |   import Distribution.Simple.Utils
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:17:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘Distribution.Verbosity’
    There are files missing in the ‘Cabal-2.4.0.1’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
17 |   import Distribution.Verbosity
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:18:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘System.FilePath’
    There are files missing in the ‘filepath-1.4.2.1’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
18 |   import System.FilePath ((</>))
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/setup/setup.hs:19:3: error:
    Could not find module ‘System.Posix.Files’
    There are files missing in the ‘unix-2.7.2.2’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
19 |   import System.Posix.Files
   |   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I wonder if there's an easy fix?

[evmar]

This code hasn't been touched in 10 years(!), so I doubt it's useful to even try to get working. I think gccxml (which this used) was also abandoned. I think there are other C REPL projects around that are maintained.

[mvrozanti]

Understandable. It's just that the few alternatives doesn't seem to be nearly as capable/organized as this. Oh well, thanks anyways!