Failure to install; xss-sanitize crashes cabal build

[wcaleb]

When attempting to install from source or from released version using cabal, installation crashes with this error:

Failed to install xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6
Build log ( /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log ):
cabal: /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log: does not exist

Using Mac Yosemite, Haskell Platform 7.10.2.

[jgm]

Hard to say what's going wrong here, but it's not a bug with
gitit. It's a problem with your cabal setup, most likely;
less likely, with xss-sanitize.

This might be a good opportunity to try the new stack install install method (after installing stack).

+++ W. Caleb McDaniel [Sep 18 15 08:49 ]:

When attempting to install from source or from released version using
cabal, installation crashes with this error:
Failed to install xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6
Build log ( /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log ):
cabal: /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log: does not exist

Using Mac Yosemite, Haskell Platform 7.10.2.

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1. Failure to install; xss-sanitize crashes cabal build #516

[wcaleb]

Thanks. I'll try it. I'm on a new computer that didn't even have the
Haskell Platform installed, so it's a fresh install. So unsure how my
setup could be the issue, though I certainly don't rule that out!

I'll still want to figure it out eventually so that I can build the
development version.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:44:38AM -0700, John MacFarlane wrote:

Hard to say what's going wrong here, but it's not a bug with
gitit. It's a problem with your cabal setup, most likely;
less likely, with xss-sanitize.

This might be a good opportunity to try the new stack install install method (after installing stack).

+++ W. Caleb McDaniel [Sep 18 15 08:49 ]:

When attempting to install from source or from released version using
cabal, installation crashes with this error:
Failed to install xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6
Build log ( /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log ):
cabal: /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log: does not exist

Using Mac Yosemite, Haskell Platform 7.10.2.

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1. Failure to install; xss-sanitize crashes cabal build #516

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[jgm]

Without any build log, it's impossible to tell what happened.

+++ W. Caleb McDaniel [Sep 18 15 11:28 ]:

Thanks. I'll try it. I'm on a new computer that didn't even have the
Haskell Platform installed, so it's a fresh install. So unsure how my
setup could be the issue, though I certainly don't rule that out!
I'll still want to figure it out eventually so that I can build the
development version.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:44:38AM -0700, John MacFarlane wrote:

Hard to say what's going wrong here, but it's not a bug with
gitit. It's a problem with your cabal setup, most likely;
less likely, with xss-sanitize.

This might be a good opportunity to try the new stack install install method (after installing stack).

+++ W. Caleb McDaniel [Sep 18 15 08:49 ]:

When attempting to install from source or from released version
using
cabal, installation crashes with this error:
Failed to install xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6
Build log ( /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log ):
cabal: /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log: does not
exist

Using Mac Yosemite, Haskell Platform 7.10.2.

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[wcaleb]

Given the error message I wondered if just manually creating an empty log file before installing would help, but alas it did not.

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W. Caleb McDaniel
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Rice University

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On Sep 18, 2015, at 4:22 PM, John MacFarlane notifications@github.com wrote:

Without any build log, it's impossible to tell what happened.

+++ W. Caleb McDaniel [Sep 18 15 11:28 ]:

Thanks. I'll try it. I'm on a new computer that didn't even have the
Haskell Platform installed, so it's a fresh install. So unsure how my
setup could be the issue, though I certainly don't rule that out!
I'll still want to figure it out eventually so that I can build the
development version.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:44:38AM -0700, John MacFarlane wrote:

Hard to say what's going wrong here, but it's not a bug with
gitit. It's a problem with your cabal setup, most likely;
less likely, with xss-sanitize.

This might be a good opportunity to try the new stack install install method (after installing stack).

+++ W. Caleb McDaniel [Sep 18 15 08:49 ]:

When attempting to install from source or from released version
using
cabal, installation crashes with this error:
Failed to install xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6
Build log ( /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log ):
cabal: /Users/wcm1/.cabal/logs/xss-sanitize-0.3.5.6.log: does not
exist

Using Mac Yosemite, Haskell Platform 7.10.2.

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[4X3L]

I don't know why this occurs but downloading the .tar.gz file from here to ~/.cabal/packages/xss-sanitize/0.3.5.7/ manually then trying to build again worked for me.