Using Cabal for dependancies

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Jan 15, 2007, at 14:43 , Neil Mitchell wrote:

> Hi Bjorn,
>
> After going through pain with dependancy hell (like .dll hell, but
> cross platform) I finally got cabal-install to build.
>
> The list command looked most interesting, but:
>
> D:\sources\contrib\Cabal\cabal-install>cabal-install list
> configure: searching for ghc in path.
> configure: found ghc at C:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\bin\ghc.exe
> "C:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\bin\ghc.exe" --numeric-version >tmp2296
> configure: looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in C:\ghc 
> \ghc-6.4.2\b
> in
> configure: found package tool in C:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\bin\ghc-pkg.exe
> cabal-install: No valid config dir found!
>
> cabal-install emit also gives the same error.

Ah, Windows. I meant to ask you to test cabal-install on Windows at  
the hackathon, but I didn't get that far. I think that it is looking  
for /etc/cabal-install, which you probably don't have. I should set  
up GHC in my Windows VM and get it working. You could try --config- 
dir=<some Windows dir where you have put etc-cabal-install/serv.list>  
in the meantime. You need to run cabal-install update as the first  
thing you do too.

/Björn