[darcs-users] red windows buildslave

[zooko]

It eventually stopped with:

cabal.exe: out of memory


Regards,

Zooko

On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Eric Kow wrote:

> Hi Duncan,
>
> May I ask you to comment on the below?  The context is that Zooko
> got a weird error trying to cabal install darcs, namely:
>
>   cabal.exe: ghc-pkg describe * failed. If you are using ghc-6.9 and
>   have an empty user package database then this is probably due to ghc
>   bug  #2201. The workaround is to register at least one package in  
> the
>   user package db.  cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
>
> So I asked him to trying cabal install zlib first (to populate the
> user package db), but then.... (see below)
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:33:36 -0700, zooko wrote:
>>> Could you try cabal install zlib followed by cabal install darcs?
>>
>> Okay, I tried "cabal install zlib", but it is just hanging without
>> emitting any output or exiting.
>>
>> Task manage shows that "cabal.exe" is using about 90% of the CPU.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Zooko
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