Build difficulties with HEAD

[Ian Lynagh]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:47:15AM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:33:09PM -0800, Conal Elliott wrote:
> > I was also unable to build from the HEAD darcs repo.  after "sh boot", and "./
> > configure", "make" aborts with "installPackage: You need to re-run the
> > 'configure' command. The version of Cabal being used has changed (was
> > Cabal-1.6.0.1, now Cabal-1.7.0)." in build.stage.1.
> 
> I just had the same problem building the 6.10.1 source distribution on
> a system with GHC 6.8.2 and Cabal 1.7.0.  This happens in ghc-prim.

The ghc-prim problem was fixed by:

[We need to tell cabal-bin which version of Cabal to use
Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>**20081203123208
 Otherwise, if the bootstrapping compiler has a newer version, we get
 a mismatch between the version used to compile ghc-prim's Setup.hs and
 the version that installPackage uses.

after 6.10.1 was released.


Thanks
Ian