audreyt
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8 years ago Hi, I just tried with GHC 8.0.1 (Haskell Platform, Windows) and it seems to install fine — the initial attempt failed but re-running seems to work.
On OSX I tried both GHC 7.10.2 and GHC 7.10.3 and they both worked on the first try. I haven't tried Linux, though, so maybe it's something specific to Linux?
In any case please try again with the new GHC 8.0.1 and see if it helps; or try cabal install -v3 interpolatedstring-perl6 to obtain a more verbose log.
Sorry, that I cannot give a better error message:
in a clean sandbox (mkdir sandbox cd sandbox cabal sandbox init cabal install interpolatedstring-perl6
gives .... registering haskell-src-meta-0.6.0.13... Installed haskell-src-meta-0.6.0.13 [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /tmp/cabal-tmp-25225/interpolatedstring-perl6-1.0.0/dist/dist-sandbox-ce47e07d/setup/setup.hs, /tmp/cabal-tmp-25225/interpolatedstring-perl6-1.0.0/dist/dist-sandbox-ce47e07d/setup/Main.o )
/tmp/cabal-tmp-25225/interpolatedstring-perl6-1.0.0/dist/dist-sandbox-ce47e07d/setup/setup.hs:4:49: Warning: In the use of ‘runTests’ (imported from Distribution.Simple, but defined in Distribution.Simple.UserHooks): Deprecated: "Please use the new testing interface instead!" Linking /tmp/cabal-tmp-25225/interpolatedstring-perl6-1.0.0/dist/dist-sandbox-ce47e07d/setup/setup ... Configuring interpolatedstring-perl6-1.0.0... Failed to install interpolatedstring-perl6-1.0.0 Updating documentation index /home/user/programming/haskell/sandbox2/.cabal-sandbox/share/doc/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.10.3/index.html cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: interpolatedstring-perl6-1.0.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure (-11)
[user@computer ~/programming/haskell/sandbox2]$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.10.3