stack setup fails with: configure: error: cannot determine current directory

Created on 18 Oct 2016 · 18Comments · Source: commercialhaskell/stack

Running on Alpine Linux 3.4.3 with linux-x86_64-static, stack/ghc fails as below (might be missing some packages??):

/tmp/mypackage # /usr/local/bin/stack setup
Preparing to install GHC to an isolated location.
This will not interfere with any system-level installation.
Already downloaded.                
Running /root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1.temp/ghc-8.0.1/configure --prefix=/root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1/ in directory /root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1.temp/ghc-8.0.1/ exited with ExitFailure 1

checking for path to top of build tree... 
/root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1.temp/ghc-8.0.1/configure: ./configure.lineno: line 2234: utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd-bindist: not found
configure: error: cannot determine current directory

Error encountered while configuring GHC with
  /root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1.temp/ghc-8.0.1/configure --prefix=/root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1/
  run in /root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1.temp/ghc-8.0.1/

The following directories may now contain files, but won't be used by stack:
  - /root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1.temp/
  - /root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1/

Configuring GHC .../tmp/mypackage

Stack version

$ stack --version
Version 1.2.0, Git revision 241cd07d576d9c0c0e712e83d947e3dd64541c42 (4054 commits) x86_64 hpack-0.14.0

new-distro-support

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gliptak

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Alpine Linux now has ghc 8.x in their testing repo:

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=ghc&branch=&repo=&arch=&maintainer=

gliptak on 8 Apr 2017

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Seems like another error occurs before this: /root/.stack/programs/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.0.1.temp/ghc-8.0.1/configure: ./configure.lineno: line 2234: utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd-bindist: not found

Seems like an issue with running the makefile based installation system of ghc. So I'd say that this is likely an upstream issue to be addressed in ghc. Can you please try to install the ghc bindists manually? It would be curious to see if the same thing occurs.

mgsloan on 18 Oct 2016

ghc bindist from https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_8_0_1#linux_x86_64 ?

gliptak on 18 Oct 2016

Yep, that should be the same. then try running configure.

mgsloan on 18 Oct 2016

Created https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12740

gliptak on 19 Oct 2016

Great, thanks!

Does this mean that we should revert the alpine linux PR I merged? (since it won't work)

mgsloan on 20 Oct 2016

Maybe we are to move forward with the followup patch (allowing others to step in ...), while not updating the docs advertising support? Thanks

gliptak on 20 Oct 2016

Sure, but how can you test it? Just seems weird to have stuff in the script for a usecase that doesn't work.

mgsloan on 20 Oct 2016

Stack itself is installed and running:

/tmp # /usr/local/bin/stack --version
Version 1.2.0, Git revision 241cd07d576d9c0c0e712e83d947e3dd64541c42 (4054 commits) x86_64 hpack-0.14.0

gliptak on 20 Oct 2016

Oh, great!

mgsloan on 20 Oct 2016

@dysinger https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2016/10/static-compilation-with-stack

gliptak on 3 Nov 2016

Is there an open issue here? Closing on the assumption this was solved or forgotten, please fix reopen otherwise...

Blaisorblade on 31 Jan 2017

@Blaisorblade Paolo, I feel this waits for upstream fix. stack advertises a static binary (which does run), but the ghc it tries to install doesn't, so it is not very useful ...

gliptak on 1 Feb 2017

I haven't reread all links, but is there any upstream issue? Link to that?

Blaisorblade on 2 Feb 2017

Linked above https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2717#issuecomment-254951176

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12740

gliptak on 2 Feb 2017

Alpine Linux now has ghc 8.x in their testing repo:

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=ghc&branch=&repo=&arch=&maintainer=

gliptak on 8 Apr 2017

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GHC collects links to distro packages under this page—they might add a link if pinged.
https://www.haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages
This is not (necessarily) an upstream issue, per se—after @mgsloan added that tag, we learned that GHC is dynamically linked against ~GHC~ musl (EDITED), so won't work on Alpine Linux. GHC accepts contributed binary builds, but doesn't commit to supporting all existing distributions—they delegate this to distros.
Since stack wants to support all distros, it seems it would need to list a GHC variant for musl in its list of GHC bindists here:
https://github.com/fpco/stackage-content/blob/master/stack/stack-setup-2.yaml
I wondered how Tim Dysinger used GHC on Alpine Linux in that blog post (https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2016/10/static-compilation-with-stack). Well, he installs the ghc distro package in the first Dockerfile. Quoting:

RUN apk add alpine-sdk git ca-certificates ghc gmp-dev zlib-dev

Blaisorblade on 9 Apr 2017

What Stack needs to fully support managing GHC on Alpine is a GHC bindist for it that installs in the usual way (./configure --prefix=/foo/bar && make install after extracting the tarball). We will happily accept contributed bindists and can add code to detect Alpine and choose the correct bindist.