[Haskell-cafe] Cabal and DB packages

Alistair Bayley alistair at abayley.org
Sun Nov 25 16:32:59 EST 2007


On 25/11/2007, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 18:49 +0100, manu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to do something that should be fairly simple, installing
> > some DB package so I can use MySQL or SQLite.
> >
> > with Takusen :
> >
> > $ runhaskell Setup.hs configure
> >
> > Setup.hs:26:7:
> >      Could not find module `Distribution.Program':
> >        Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> >
> > I give up...
> >
> > ----------------
>
> That means that Takusen requires an older Cabal.  I'd have to look at
> the code to see how hard it would be to fix this.

Um, yes. We haven't tested Takusen with ghc-6.8.1 yet, but it's on the list...

Our Setup.hs is a bit involved at present, and soon I hope to simplify
it quite a bit. There's a load of stuff in there just to get it to
build Haddock docs, which will be gone soon.

Alistair


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