cabal install

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Nov 4, 2007, at 17:10 , Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I thought I should report this too you: cabal install doesn't work  
> for me:
> (update and list work)
>
> jp at legolas:~/src$ cabal -v3 install vty
> Configuration:
> compiler: GHC
> repos: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive
> cachedir: "/home/jp/.cabal/packages"
> user-install: true
> user-prefix: "/home/jp/.cabal"
> user-bindir: "$prefix/bin"
> user-libdir: "$prefix/lib"
> user-libexecdir: "$prefix/libexec"
> user-datadir: "$prefix/share"
> user-docdir: "$datadir/doc/$pkgid"
> user-htmldir: "$docdir/html"
> global-prefix: "/usr/local"
> global-bindir: "$prefix/bin"
> global-libdir: "$prefix/lib"
> global-libexecdir: "$prefix/libexec"
> global-datadir: "$prefix/share"
> global-docdir: "$datadir/doc/$pkgid"
> global-htmldir: "$docdir/html"
> searching for ghc in path.
> found ghc at /home/jp/usr/bin/ghc
> ("/home/jp/usr/bin/ghc",["--numeric-version"])
> /home/jp/usr/bin/ghc is version 6.8.1
> looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in /home/jp/usr/bin
> found package tool in /home/jp/usr/bin/ghc-pkg
> ("/home/jp/usr/bin/ghc-pkg",["--version"])
> /home/jp/usr/bin/ghc-pkg is version 6.8.1
> searching for ld in path.
> found ld at /usr/bin/ld
> cabal: dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist (No such file or  
> directory)
>
>
> Cheers,
> JP

Hi Jean-Philippe,

it works fine for me, but I only have GHC 6.6.1 at the moment. What  
platform are you on?

I'm not sure what the dist/Conftest.c error is about. I'm CC:ing  
cabal-devel, perhaps some other Cabal hacker can help.

/Björn