[darcs-users] buildbot slave admins - please install maybench

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:24, Eric Kow wrote:
> Dear buildbot slave admnistrators,
> 
> I would like to request that your buildslaves participate in the performance
> regression testing of darcs.  To do so, please install maybench 0.2.4.1

Reporting for thorkil tn20: Will do.

> (available for both GHC 6.6 and 6.8.2).

Based on my experience installing cabal install  (see below), I would tend to 
conclude that these instructions for installing maybench does not go well 
together with

> $ ghc --version
> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.6.1

at least. But please read on and conclude for yourself.

> You can install maybench by using 
> cabal install, following the instructions below.
> 
> 1. Install cabal install
> ------------------------
> wget 
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cabal-install/0.5.2/cabal-install-0.5.2.tar.gz
> tar -zxf cabal-install-0.5.2.tar.gz 
> cd cabal-install-0.5.2
> ./bootstrap.sh 

This ended:

> Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> unix >=2.2 && <2.4

I should say that I have never used cabal install before, nor cabal itself 
particularly often. But after getting

> Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> directory -any

for the unix-2.3.0.0 configure,

> Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> old-time -any

for the directory-1.0.0.0 configure,

> Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> old-locale -any

for the old-time-1.0.0.0 configure and having successfully installed 
old-locale-1.0.0.0, building old-time-1.0.0.0 now ended

> System/Time.hsc:118:7:
>     Could not find module `System.Locale':
>       it was found in multiple packages: old-locale-1.0.0.0 base

I seemed to recognize this as similar to other stories where people have had 
trouble with base package split, cabal version and the like. Please 
understand that I know that this is not the place to complain about this, I 
merely wish to document that I did make an effort to work around the problems 
that I encountered. In fact, I tried several other things (and if you are 
interested, I will gladly tell you about them) that also failed.

> 
> 2. Install maybench
> -------------------
> cabal update
> cabal install maybench --global

Without cabal install, I was unable to do this. I did try to install it as an 
ardinary Cabal package, but got:

> Setup: maybench.cabal:8: 'Executable' stanza starting with field 'category'

I didn't try to investigate this further.

> ...

So please advice: What should I try next?

Thanks a lot and best regards
Thorkil