Re: build problems with BuildFlavour = prof

On Donnerstag, 1. November 2012, 08:50:53, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
> 1) Is cabal's error correct? Do I really need to enable profiling to get
> transformers working? Or is some other incompatibility at play here? (For
> what it's worth, what I really want is the mtl library, but that depends on
> transformers.)

You probably have

library-profiling: True

in your ~/.cabal/config, so cabal tries to build profiling versions of the 
libraries. That of course requires profiling versions of their dependencies. 
The quick build-flavour doesn't build profiling versions of base etc., so you 
can't build profiling versions of other libraries with that.

cabal install --disable-library-profiling transformers

ought to work.

> 2) Is there a bug in the build process for BuildFlavour =
> prof?

Seems so, I get the same error.

> 
> If it matters, I am using GHC 7.6.1 as my base compiler on Mac OS 10.7.5. I
> can give other version numbers, etc., on request.
> 
> Thanks!
> Richard