Broken Cabal on Windows

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 11:32:36 EDT 2007


Hi

Turns out a complete delete of the tree and a fresh checkout works
fine - seems like a niggle relating to the removal of Compat.FilePath.
All fixed now.

Thanks

Neil

On 6/27/07, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got Windows, GHC 6.6.1 and I just tried to upgrade Cabal. Now
> Cabal is totally broken on my system.
>
> From the Cabal directory:
> $ darcs pull
> $ runhaskell Setup configure
> $ runhaskell Setup build
> $ runhaskell Setup install
>
> All completed with a nice pile of warnings, but no errors.
>
> Then from any other Cabal package directory:
> D:\sources\temp\catch-0.1>runhaskell Setup configure
> <interactive>:
> C:\Program Files\Haskell\Cabal-1.1.7\ghc-6.6.1/HSCabal-1.1.7.o: unknown symbol `
> _Cabalzm1zi1zi7_DistributionziCompatziFilePath_slash_closure'
> ghc.exe: unable to load package `Cabal-1.1.7'
>
> Obviously this breaks Cabal entirely on my system.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>


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