*** abort because of serious configure-time warning from Cabal

[MMesch]

probably I am doing something wrong. I often get this error when building with the default.nix that was generated by stack2nix:

*** abort because of serious configure-time warning from Cabal

for example in one case:

   This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is very likely to cause a compile failure.
      package accelerate-llvm-native (accelerate-llvm-native-1.2.0.0-6h9HfY2jTx2VH4bfhr7AT) requires Cabal-2.2.0.1
      package proto-lens-protoc (proto-lens-protoc-0.3.1.0-JlEPGIPhQWg4b89HqVvNBT) requires Cabal-2.2.0.1-302vnEvwKg

Usually the version is the same. I had the same warning with a bunch of other packes, e.g. mtl, text, parsec, stm, which I managed to fix by adding:

in compiler.override {
  overrides = self: super: builtins.intersectAttrs super {
          mtl = null;
          text = null;
          stm = null;
          parsec = null;
          llvm-hs = super.llvm-hs.override { llvm-config = pkgs.llvm_5; };
      };
  initialPackages = stackPackages;
  configurationCommon = { ... }: self: super: {};
  compilerConfig = self: super: {};
}

I would like to understand why this happens and how it can be best avoided. Unfortunately I can't share my whole package to reproduce this. Do you have any idea what this is all about?

[domenkozar]

In this particular case it's overriding Cabal package with GHC core package Cabal. nulling is should help.

[MMesch]

yea, nulling works! Just wanted to make sure if there is a better way. So in general all core packages should be nulled? Could this be done automatically by stack2nix for a specific compiler version? Thanks for your help!

[domenkozar]

This is taken care in https://github.com/input-output-hk/stack2nix/blob/master/src/Stack2nix/Render.hs#L41

To handle this properly, it should be dynamic based on GHC version given, which is what https://github.com/input-output-hk/stack2nix/issues/84 is for.

[jbddc]

I'm having this issue trying to install stack2nix itself on macOS 10.14 via nix-env -i stack2nix.

log of error:

Warning:
    This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is very likely to cause a compile failure.
      package stack (stack-1.7.1-BQMzj61gcS0AMnQ9515h5G) requires hpack-0.28.2-D5wQRI3i0Aj8zKd1Fim8jg
      package cabal2nix (cabal2nix-2.11.1-GuaVBKOfTThDuKLENITX3N) requires hpack-0.31.0-AESTz2gkjLlInPZKnFfKik
      package hpack (hpack-0.31.0-AESTz2gkjLlInPZKnFfKik) requires yaml-0.10.2.0-2VrG2IcweXi2bYu60tkqhi
      package cabal2nix (cabal2nix-2.11.1-GuaVBKOfTThDuKLENITX3N) requires yaml-0.10.2.0-2VrG2IcweXi2bYu60tkqhi
      package stack (stack-1.7.1-BQMzj61gcS0AMnQ9515h5G) requires yaml-0.8.32-4Z0OzlK7LYy1TYzjczwhtA
      package hpack (hpack-0.28.2-D5wQRI3i0Aj8zKd1Fim8jg) requires yaml-0.8.32-4Z0OzlK7LYy1TYzjczwhtA
Using Cabal-2.2.0.1 compiled by ghc-8.4
Using compiler: ghc-8.4.3
Using install prefix:
/nix/store/aghblpy3r2jyk8i5g0cg0kz8m1i3qgad-stack2nix-0.2.1
Executables installed in:
/nix/store/aghblpy3r2jyk8i5g0cg0kz8m1i3qgad-stack2nix-0.2.1/bin
Libraries installed in:
/nix/store/aghblpy3r2jyk8i5g0cg0kz8m1i3qgad-stack2nix-0.2.1/lib/ghc-8.4.3/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.4.3/stack2nix-0.2.1-3ERNdvgZd5F7eRT61gEbWY
Dynamic Libraries installed in:
/nix/store/aghblpy3r2jyk8i5g0cg0kz8m1i3qgad-stack2nix-0.2.1/lib/ghc-8.4.3/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.4.3
Private executables installed in:
/nix/store/aghblpy3r2jyk8i5g0cg0kz8m1i3qgad-stack2nix-0.2.1/libexec/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.4.3/stack2nix-0.2.1
Data files installed in:
/nix/store/aghblpy3r2jyk8i5g0cg0kz8m1i3qgad-stack2nix-0.2.1/share/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.4.3/stack2nix-0.2.1
Documentation installed in:
/nix/store/aghblpy3r2jyk8i5g0cg0kz8m1i3qgad-stack2nix-0.2.1/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.4.3/stack2nix-0.2.1
Configuration files installed in:
/nix/store/aghblpy3r2jyk8i5g0cg0kz8m1i3qgad-stack2nix-0.2.1/etc
No alex found
Using ar found on system at:
/nix/store/9xjkb4xz0b5lmizij9ppxy7lkxdxhx6b-cctools-binutils-darwin/bin/ar
No c2hs found
No cpphs found
No doctest found
Using gcc version 4.2.1 given by user at:
/nix/store/6mca864ajrir4d7j0aka53pvh2p7vdaq-clang-wrapper-5.0.2/bin/clang
Using ghc version 8.4.3 found on system at:
/nix/store/3bnymdg63h6cr994jvfiwiikviv02kan-ghc-8.4.3/bin/ghc
Using ghc-pkg version 8.4.3 found on system at:
/nix/store/3bnymdg63h6cr994jvfiwiikviv02kan-ghc-8.4.3/bin/ghc-pkg
No ghcjs found
No ghcjs-pkg found
No greencard found
Using haddock version 2.20.0 found on system at:
/nix/store/3bnymdg63h6cr994jvfiwiikviv02kan-ghc-8.4.3/bin/haddock
No happy found
Using haskell-suite found on system at: haskell-suite-dummy-location
Using haskell-suite-pkg found on system at: haskell-suite-pkg-dummy-location
No hmake found
Using hpc version 0.67 found on system at:
/nix/store/3bnymdg63h6cr994jvfiwiikviv02kan-ghc-8.4.3/bin/hpc
Using hsc2hs version 0.68.3 found on system at:
/nix/store/3bnymdg63h6cr994jvfiwiikviv02kan-ghc-8.4.3/bin/hsc2hs
No hscolour found
No jhc found
Using ld found on system at:
/nix/store/qyl9m5wynpyh69qcad28zh8r7ian1x8c-cctools-binutils-darwin-wrapper/bin/ld
No lhc found
No lhc-pkg found
No pkg-config found
Using runghc version 8.4.3 found on system at:
/nix/store/3bnymdg63h6cr994jvfiwiikviv02kan-ghc-8.4.3/bin/runghc
Using strip found on system at:
/nix/store/9xjkb4xz0b5lmizij9ppxy7lkxdxhx6b-cctools-binutils-darwin/bin/strip
Using tar found on system at:
/nix/store/342bldlxhl2smdigz01and97i9wjxfwc-gnutar-1.30/bin/tar
No uhc found
*** abort because of serious configure-time warning from Cabal
builder for '/nix/store/sblgy8dxgr3symldlv2wjlrk7y7jncbk-stack2nix-0.2.1.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: build of '/nix/store/sblgy8dxgr3symldlv2wjlrk7y7jncbk-stack2nix-0.2.1.drv' failed

[domenkozar]

For now best to use it from NixOS 18.09, I'll fix nixpkgs master.

[domenkozar]

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/9e502600ba88f237f6973d6c0582eac61d77f102

[michaelpj]

I also just hit this when using stack2nix with a LTS-12 series snapshot.

[domenkozar]

Note: waiting on #84