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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks. But alas I have no clue about whether I want a v1-install or a v2-install, nor how to achieve them if I knew what they were. I just want to install ‘hspec’ so that I can use it when compiling a program. How would I do that?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The instructions here <a href="https://wiki.haskell.org/Cabal-Install">
https://wiki.haskell.org/Cabal-Install</a> just say “cabal install hspec” which is what I tried. Those instructions are pointed to from here
<a href="https://wiki.haskell.org/Cabal/How_to_install_a_Cabal_package">https://wiki.haskell.org/Cabal/How_to_install_a_Cabal_package</a>, which in turn are pointed to from the main Cabal home page
<a href="https://www.haskell.org/cabal/">https://www.haskell.org/cabal/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I must be missing something.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 April 2019 22:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ghc-devs@haskell.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Cabal woes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I think you wanted v1-install to install a library into the user package database, since your cabal is 3.x and the v2-* commands are now the default (that is, you did what used to be cabal new-install or cabal v2-install). <o:p></o:p></p>
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 5:47 PM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <<a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I’m trying to install ‘hspec’ on my WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux) system.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">But I fail; see below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">For some reason cabal complains about installing a library. (That seems peculiar – isn’t that what cabal is for?) But it helpfully suggests adding –lib.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Alas, cabal then crashes outright, which should never happen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">So I’m stuck. What should I do?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ cabal --version<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">cabal-install version 3.0.0.0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">compiled using version 3.0.0.0 of the Cabal library
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<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ cabal install hspec<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">Resolving dependencies...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">Up to date<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">Warning: You asked to install executables, but there are no executables in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">target: hspec. Perhaps you want to use --lib to install libraries instead.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ cabal install --lib hspec<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">Resolving dependencies...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">Up to date<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs:1959:5-56: Irrefutable pattern failed for pattern Just ghcPkgProg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ which ghc<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">/opt/ghc/bin/ghc<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$ which ghc-pkg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">/opt/ghc/bin/ghc-pkg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code">simonpj@MSRC-9870733:~$<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m-1866220934865054569code"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">brandon s allbery kf8nh<o:p></o:p></p>
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