id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
2557,building HEAD fails when editline is installed as a user package,judahj,igloo,"Building stage1 of HEAD fails when editline is installed as a user-level package, but not as a global package, in the bootstrapping compiler.  I am using ghc-6.8.3 to build ghc-6.9.20080830.

{{{
/Users/judah/Programming/dontbackup/ghc-unvalidated/libraries/cabal-bin /usr/local/bin/ghc /Users/judah/Programming/dontbackup/ghc-unvalidated/libraries/bootstrapping.conf configure --distpref dist-stage1 \
                           --flags=stage1 --flags=-ghci --flags=ncg --flags=editline --ghc-options='-#include ""cutils.h""' --with-compiler=/usr/local/bin/ghc --with-hc-pkg=/usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg --package-db /Users/judah/Programming/dontbackup/ghc-unvalidated/libraries/bootstrapping.conf \
                           --prefix=/NONEXISTENT --bindir=/NONEXISTENT --libdir=/NONEXISTENT --libexecdir=/NONEXISTENT --datadir=/NONEXISTENT --docdir=/NONEXISTENT --haddockdir=/NONEXISTENT --htmldir=/NONEXISTENT \
                           --libsubdir='$pkgid' --with-gcc=gcc --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld  --with-hscolour=/Users/judah/.cabal/bin/HsColour --with-alex=/usr/local/bin/alex --with-happy=/Users/judah/.cabal/bin/happy    --configure-option='--prefix=/Users/judah/tmp/ghc-stage' --configure-option=--with-cc=gcc --with-hsc2hs=/Users/judah/Programming/dontbackup/ghc-unvalidated/utils/hsc2hs/install-inplace/bin/hsc2hs \
                           --ghc-option=-DSTAGE=1
Configuring ghc-6.9...
cabal-bin: At least the following dependencies are missing:
editline -any
make[1]: *** [boot.stage.1] Error 1
make: *** [stage1] Error 1
}}}

Ghc decides whether to use editline in stage1 based on the flag `GhcHasEditline`, which the configure script sets to True in this case.  Since the above cabal-bin  command doesn't look at the user-level package DB, Cabal doesn't see the editline package and complains.

When the build system changes (post-6.10) to rely less on Cabal, this issue may go away.  But for 6.10, I think that the easiest solution is to just never build stage1 with editline.  Note that we already never build ghci in stage1 (see `compiler/Makefile`), so this seems reasonable to me.  Patch is attached.",bug,closed,normal,6.10.1,Compiler,6.9,fixed,,,MacOS X,x86,,Unknown,,,,