[Haskell-cafe] Error building Edison 1.2.0.1

[Robert Dockins]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 22:00, Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I tried to build edison-1.2.0.1-sources with the command 'make system'
> but got:
>
> *** Exception: Line 10: Unknown field 'hs-source-dirs'
>
> I am using GHC 6.4.1. Any idea how to fix this?

You are probably using an older version of Cabal.  You can either upgrade 
Cabal or, from the Edison README*:


This version of edison builds correctly with Cabal version 1.1.4,
which is shipped with GHC 6.4.2.  To build on earlier versions,
it should suffice to:

s/UndecidableInstances/AllowUndecidableInstances/
s/Hs-Source-Dirs:/Hs-Source-Dir:/

in the .cabal files.



The 'hs-source-dir' cabal directive was depreciated in 1.1.4, but perhaps I 
should have waited a bit longer to change it.  OTOH, there isn't any good way 
to deal with the change in the undecidable instances flag, since it was 
outright changed.  Grrrr..... *grumble* incompatible changes in minor 
releases *grumble*.


(*) Further, grrrr... in the above, I've fixed several embarrasing typos in 
the text of the README.

> Thanks,
> Lyle

-- 
Rob Dockins

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