Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

[Christian Maeder]

Ross Paterson schrieb:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -0000, Bayley, Alistair wrote:
>> Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text:
>>
>> author:                 Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones
>>
>> It could well be Latin-1 encoded, rather than UTF8.
> 
> No, syb-0.1.0.3/syb.cabal is UTF-8-encoded (conforming to the Cabal docs).

My guess would be that the "locale" is not properly set. The environment
variable LANG should be set to something shown by "locale -a" (i.e
en_GB). Other LC_* variables should not be set.
The variables should not be "C" or "POSIX".

(I was able to install syb-0.1.0.3 without a problem)

Cheers Christian

>> Try editing the author field to this:
>>
>> author:                 Ralf Laemmel, Simon Peyton Jones
>>
>> and rebuilding/installing.
> 
> If it's a ghc-pkg problem, that might work.