cabal install does not work when /tmp/ is mounted "noexec"

[guest]

Wanting to to build darcs 2.4.3, I downloaded the tarball (  http://wiki.darcs.net/Releases/2.4 ) and uncompressed it in /tmp/ to run cabal install. I got the following error :

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: darcs-2.4.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure? 127

See  http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=25412#a25412 for a full verbose log, but i think there is nothing informative to it.

However, if I do "rm -fr dist" and try cabal install again, darcs build fine. Also, if I try in $HOME, cabal install works directly.

Here are the versions of the software I'm using:

cabal-install version 0.8.2 using version 1.8.0.4 of the Cabal library

ghc 6.12.1

Linux distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

I hope this will help you!

[duncan]

The problem is very likely that /tmp is mounted noexec, see ticket #696. The log is consistent with this, the failure happens when trying to run the setup program.

We should determine if Ubuntu 10.04 is now always using a /tmp mounted "noexec" since if that is the case we will need to use a different temp directory.