dev-haskell/happy-1.17 fails to compile with: ... [ebuild R ] dev-haskell/happy-1.17 USE="doc*" 0 kB [0] ... >>> Emerging (1 of 10) dev-haskell/happy-1.17 * happy-1.17.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking happy-1.17.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-haskell/happy-1.17/work * Running autoconf ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-haskell/happy-1.17/work/happy-1.17 ... * Using cabal-1.6.0.1. [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /var/tmp/portage/dev-haskell/happy-1.17/work/happy-1.17/Setup.lhs, /var/tmp/portage/dev-haskell/happy-1.17/work/happy-1.17/Setup.o ) /var/tmp/portage/dev-haskell/happy-1.17/work/happy-1.17/Setup.lhs:30:43: Not in scope: `buildVerbose' * * ERROR: dev-haskell/happy-1.17 failed. Reproducible: Always root@condor:/root(139)# emerge --info Portage 2.1.6_rc3 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27.6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27.6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:00:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r15, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /et c/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc /texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="de fr" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles -- exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi administrator afs aiglx alsa amd64 amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf atlas auctex audacious audiofile automount bash-completion beagl e berkdb bjam blas bluetooth bonobo boo boost bzip2 c++ cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli corba cracklib cran crypt cups curl cxx daap db us device-mapper dga dia divx djvu dlloader dmi doc dri ds3490 dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dxr3 dynagraph eds effects elf emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo exam ples exif expat extra fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx galago gd gdal gdbm geos gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glitz gml gmp gnokii gnome gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphics graphviz gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hlapi http hvm iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog ithreads jabber java jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kde4 kerberos kexi keyring ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap libffi libgda libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors lua lzo lzw mad maildir math matroska midi mmx mmxext mng mod mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mo zxmlterm mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl n ptlonly nsplugin ntfs numarray numeric nvidia obex ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole opengl openmp pae pam pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png posix postg res postscript pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks python qhull quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rhythmbox rle rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl sc ience sdl session slang slp smp sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg sysfs t1lib tcl tcpd tex theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk truetype unicode userlocales utempter v4l2 vorbis wmf wxwindows xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xor g xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 iop lug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_an on authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lo ck dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negot iation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" DVB_CARDS="cx880 0 cx88xx tda1004x saa713" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse " KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb21 6 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="ide websvccommon nb harness apisupport groovy gsf j2ee java xml" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARD S="nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is likely due to using a too recent version of cabal with an old version of happy. I've bumped the happy package in portage, 1.18.2, please try again with that version.
Thank you Lennart, happy-1.18.2 works for me.