[Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

[Ketil Malde]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:08 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> > > - Found that on hackage, downloaded and built OK. Lots of scary
> > > warnings about happy, greencard etc, not being found during configure,
> > > but let's go on.

> > I've complained about these before, although I don't think anyone
> > considered doing anything about it.

> We know what needs to change, but it's not a trivial change.

> The problem is that currently .cabal files to not specify what build
> tools they need, 

A possible stop-gap might be to only report the build tools that were
actually found?  The way it is now, it looks too much like an error
message.

-k