[Barrelfish-users] build error: Main.hs: Expecting one more argument to ‘Exp’

[Michael Neilly]

FYI - I just wrote a dumb script that moved HEAD back 1 commit at a time and ran hake.sh until it found a commit that worked. 
I have to go back to August 17 2015 to find a hash that doesn't fail with the same message. 

commit 2344a661f9c23c73358fc92dc5f4fbfe9ad7d3beDate:   Mon Aug 17 21:22:53 2015 +0200

    Generates a Makefile

The next commit fails with same error:

commit 8c286e59ab0913c0827954210ae6daab52c11bf0Date:   Tue Aug 18 09:24:19 2015 +0200

    Replaced old hake


      From: Michael Neilly <mneilly at yahoo.com>
 To: Timothy Roscoe <troscoe at inf.ethz.ch> 
Cc: "barrelfish-users at lists.inf.ethz.ch" <barrelfish-users at lists.inf.ethz.ch>
 Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 11:42 AM
 Subject: Re: [Barrelfish-users] build error: Main.hs: Expecting one more argument to ‘Exp’
   
Thanks for the response Timothy. Unfortunately, I'm seeing the same error on Ubuntu with GHC 7.10.3. FWIW - I've attached the output from "cabal list --installed" and "dpkg -l | grep ghc" to show the versions in case there are any issues there...
mneilly at vm-ubuntu:~/OSS/barrelfish/build$
NAME="Ubuntu"VERSION="16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"ID=ubuntuID_LIKE=debianPRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS"VERSION_ID="16.04"HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial
mneilly at vm-ubuntu:~/OSS/barrelfish/build$ ghc --versionThe Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.10.3
mneilly at vm-ubuntu:~/OSS/barrelfish/build$ ../hake/hake.sh -s ../ -a x86_64Install directory defaulting to '.'Source directory is ../Architectures to build: "x86_64"Setting up hake build directory...You already have Config.hs, leaving it as-is.Building hake...[13 of 13] Compiling Main             ( ../hake/Main.hs, hake/Main.o )
../hake/Main.hs:348:43:    Expecting one more argument to ‘Exp’    The first argument of ‘Either’ should have kind ‘*’,      but ‘Exp’ has kind ‘* -> *’    In the type signature for ‘parseHake’:      parseHake :: FilePath -> String -> Either Exp HakeError
../hake/Main.hs:406:25:    Expecting one more argument to ‘Exp’    Expected a type, but ‘Exp’ has kind ‘* -> *’    In the type signature for ‘wrapHake’:      wrapHake :: FilePath -> Exp -> Exp

      From: Timothy Roscoe <troscoe at inf.ethz.ch>
 To: Michael Neilly <mneilly at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "barrelfish-users at lists.inf.ethz.ch" <barrelfish-users at lists.inf.ethz.ch>
 Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 10:29 AM
 Subject: Re: [Barrelfish-users] build error: Main.hs: Expecting one more argument to ‘Exp’
  

Dear Michael,

This is most likely a Haskell problem - the glorious Glasgow Haskell
people like to make subtle incompatible changes to their compiler with
each new version.

As a rule, we always support (and our CI tests run on) a reasonably
recent version of Ubuntu LTS - right now that's 16.04 (Xenial), which
ships with GHC version 7.10.3.  I'd suggest trying that, and let us
know if the problem persists.

Best regards,

 -- Mothy

At Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:03:33 +0000, Michael Neilly <mneilly at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, I thought I'd take a look at barrelfish. I have cloned the git repo and am attempting to build from mastesr but I am seeing the following error. Any suggestions on how I can resolve this? Thx!
> $ ghc --versionThe Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.0.1
> $ ../hake/hake.sh -s ../ -a x86_64Install directory defaulting to '.'Source directory is ../Architectures to build: "x86_64"Setting up hake build directory...You already have Config.hs, leaving it as-is.Building hake...[13 of 13] Compiling Main             ( ../hake/Main.hs, hake/Main.o )
> ../hake/Main.hs:348:43: error:    • Expecting one more argument to ‘Exp’      Expected a type, but ‘Exp’ has kind ‘* -> *’    • In the first argument of ‘Either’, namely ‘Exp’      In the type signature:        parseHake :: FilePath -> String -> Either Exp HakeError
> ../hake/Main.hs:406:25: error:    • Expecting one more argument to ‘Exp’      Expected a type, but ‘Exp’ has kind ‘* -> *’    • In the type signature:        wrapHake :: FilePath -> Exp -> Exp
> ../hake/Main.hs:406:32: error:    • Expecting one more argument to ‘Exp’      Expected a type, but ‘Exp’ has kind ‘* -> *’    • In the type signature:        wrapHake :: FilePath -> Exp -> Exp$

   

   
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