cabal output

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Thu Aug 30 12:08:03 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 20:25 -0400, Peter Gavin wrote:
> When I run setup configure on my machine I get:
> 
> Configuring Cabal-1.1.7...
> unrecognized option `--numeric-version'
> Try the option `--help' on its own for more information.
> setup: executing external program failed (exit 1) : /usr/bin/c2hs
> --numeric-version

Fixed.

> This is a bit confusing, because at first glance it looks like setup
> failed.  I find this slightly annoying.  Could we have it print "setup
> was successful" or something similar, just so we know for sure?  I
> mean, we're already printing out the "Configuring Cabal..." message,
> so I don't think one more line is too wordy :)

Send a patch! :-)

Duncan



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