[Haskell-cafe] Error building Edison 1.2.0.1

[Lyle Kopnicky]

Robert Dockins wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 22:58, Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
>   
>> Robert Dockins wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> Oh, OK, thanks! Well, now I'm running GHC 6.5.20060924, and getting the
>> error mentioned in my previous message.
>>     
>
> Whats the output of
>
> ghc-pkg -l
>
> ?
>
>   
lwk at lwk-desktop:~$ ghc-pkg -l
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.5.20060924/package.conf:
    Cabal-1.1.4, base-2.0, (ghc-6.5.20060924), haskell98-1.0,
    parsec-2.0, readline-1.0, regex-base-0.71, regex-compat-0.71,
    regex-posix-0.71, rts-1.0, stm-2.0, template-haskell-2.0, unix-1.0
l
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