Official procedure to build from source bundled with GHC source tarball?

[Vanessa McHale]

Perhaps try to bootstrap from

cabal get cabal-install

?

Cheers,
Vanessa McHale

On 2/9/20 1:39 AM, Compl Yue via cabal-devel wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm trying to install cabal after built ghc 8.8.2 on smartos, seems
> the src bundled within ghc src tarball not working:
>
> |[root at hswander /build/ghc-8.8.2/libraries/Cabal/cabal-install]#
> ./bootstrap.sh |||
> |||Using gcc for C compiler. If this is not what you want, set CC.|||
> |||Using
> /opt/local/gcc7/libexec/gcc/x86_64-sun-solaris2.11/7.4.0/collect2
> instead.|||
> |||Checking installed packages for ghc-8.4.4...|||
> |||deepseq is already installed and the version is ok.|||
> |||binary is already installed and the version is ok.|||
> |||time is already installed and the version is ok.|||
> |||transformers is already installed and the version is ok.|||
> |||mtl is already installed and the version is ok.|||
> |||text is already installed and the version is ok.|||
> |||parsec is already installed and the version is ok.|||
> |||network-uri-2.6.1.0 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||network-2.7.0.0 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||HTTP-4000.3.12 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||zlib-0.6.2 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||random-1.1 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||stm is already installed and the version is ok.|||
> |||hashable-1.2.7.0 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||async-2.2.1 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||base16-bytestring-0.1.1.6 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||base64-bytestring-1.0.0.1 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||cryptohash-sha256-0.11.101.0 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||resolv-0.1.1.1 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||mintty-0.1.2 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||echo-0.1.3 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||edit-distance-0.2.2.1 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||ed25519-0.0.5.0 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||tar-0.5.1.0 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||digest-0.0.1.2 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||lukko-0.1.1 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||hackage-security-0.6.0.0 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> |||Cabal-3.0.1.0 will be downloaded and installed.|||
> ||||
> |||Downloading Cabal-3.0.1.0...|||
> |||  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time    
> Time  Current|||
> |||                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent   
> Left  Speed|||
> |||  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:02
> --:--:--     0|||
> |||curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found|||
> ||||
> |||Error during cabal-install bootstrap:|||
> |||Failed to download Cabal.|||
> |||[root at hswander /build/ghc-8.8.2/libraries/Cabal/cabal-install]# |
>
> I wonder what's the official way to do it?
>
> btw, I don't know why I can not send msg to the freenode #cabal channel:
>
> |
> (15时11分28秒) ComplYue: ping
> (15时11分28秒) Cannot send to nick/channel|
>
> ||Thanks with best regards,
>
> Compl
>
>
>
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