stack install quits without explanation on ARM

[gitfoxi]

stack install

Installs some packages from build-depends then quietly and without explanation stops doing that. Is there a log or something I can check?

Long story is that I copied the contents of lts-5.1 into my build-depends. I don't know much about stack, but after deleting lines with the word "install", stack started building and installing things in alphabetical order. Great.

Later, I returned hoping to see progress but, after installing most packages starting with a, stack decided to call it a day and head the pub. Seeing no messages or logs, I tried it again

stack install

This time she finished building everything starting with a and a few things starting with b (up to base-unicode-symbols-0.2.2.4) before nodding off in a drunken stupor.

Stack is running on Ubuntu 14.04, ghc-10.7.3, aarch64 on a 12-core, 25GB armcloud instance with only 30GB disk. I checked that she hadn't run out disk, and she hadn't. But the other thing is that it's day-1 for me on this hardware platform -- just built ghc yesterday; cabal and stack this morning -- so probably not everything has been tested that well.

[borsboom]

ARM is an untested architecture for Stack, so it's not surprising that you're having trouble. As a first step, I'd recommend running stack --verbose | tee stack.log to get the verbose output to help determine what Stack is doing when it dies, and then debug from there.

Possibly related: #1332

[gitfoxi]

Thanks. It’s not going to be untested for long.

On Feb 7, 2016, at 3:52 AM, Emanuel Borsboom [email protected] wrote:

ARM is an untested architecture for Stack, so it's not surprising that you're having trouble. As a first step, I'd recommend running stack --verbose | tee stack.log to get the verbose output to help determine what Stack is doing when it dies, and then debug from there.

Possibly related: #1332 #1332
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[borsboom]

I'm going to close this support issue, but there is plenty of discussion going on around ARMv7 support in #2103, where a number of people report successfully using Stack on ARMv7.