[Haskell-cafe] cabal install: Could not find module `Text.XML.HXT.Arrow'

[Erik Hesselink]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:16, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
<ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 November 2011 22:10, Erik Hesselink <hesselink at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is because hSimpleDB doesn't specify version ranges on its
>> dependencies, when it should. Since hxt changed its module structure
>> going from 9.0 to 9.1, hSimpleDB doesn't build against 9.0.
>>
>> You can try to build it by adding '--constraint=hxt==9.0.\*' after
>> your cabal-install command. You can also ask the author to add version
>> ranges to the package.
>
> Is the escape needed if you're using single quotes?

I don't know. I always escape *s in shell commands to be sure the
shell doesn't expand them, but in most of the cases, it probably works
without them. It will likely even work without quotes and without the
escape, unless you have files matching the pattern.

Erik