On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:10:28PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > [...] > > Increasing verbosity does not help, memory consumption goes up after the > > message "Resolving dependencies..." shows up. > > > > I use ghc 6.8.2 and cabal-install version 0.5.1 using version 1.4.0.1 of > > the Cabal library. > > The only instance of this behaviour that I know of involves using that > version of cabal-install with ghc-6.10.1. > > http://haskell.org/cabal/FAQ.html#cabal-goes-into-an-infinite-loop--runs-out-of-memory > > [...] > > Are you absolutely sure you are using ghc 6.8 and not 6.10?
Yes: > k...@copper:~$ ghc -V ; cabal -V > The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.8.2 > cabal-install version 0.5.1 > using version 1.4.0.1 of the Cabal library > > Is there a workaround? I would like to avoid fetching & building packages > > manually. > > If you're using ghc 6.10 then the solution is to update to cabal-install > 0.6.x. If you're quite sure you are using 6.8 then the bug is unknown. > It may still be worth trying upgrading to cabal-install 0.6.x. I'll try that and report success/failure. Thanks, -- Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" -- Leonardo da Vinci _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe