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Asked: 2026-06-06T14:20:55+00:00

I’m trying to compile hackport ( here is sources: https://github.com/Nensha/hackport ) with newer cabal

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I’m trying to compile hackport ( here is sources: https://github.com/Nensha/hackport ) with newer cabal but always getting the same Error:

[61 of 91] Compiling Distribution.Client.Types ( cabal/cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Types.hs, dist/build/hackport/hackport-tmp/Distribution/Client/Types.o )

cabal/cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Types.hs:33:12:
    Module
    `Distribution.Compat.Exception'
    does not export
    `SomeException'

according Distribution.Compat.Exception there must not be any problems and in must come from base but fails. So the question is why?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your problem is that

    Hs-Source-Dirs:       ., cabal/cabal, cabal/cabal-install

    there are two modules Distribution.Compat.Exception. One under cabal/cabal and one under cabal/cabal-install. The latter exports SomeException, the former doesn’t. But the compiler picked up the one from the Cabal library, which doesn’t. Maybe reordering the directories in the Hs-Source-Dirs field would be a workaround.

    Normally, when compiling cabal-install, the source directories of the Cabal library are not available, so the Distribution.Compat.Exception that gets picked up is the one from cabal-install.

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