[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: cabal-install

[Ben Franksen]

Thomas Schilling wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:46 +0100, Ben Franksen wrote:
>> Don Stewart wrote:
>> > ben.franksen:
>> >> cabal: dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist (No such file or
>> >> directory)
>> > 
>> > This one is due to having an out of date cabal. Upgrade to darcs cabal,
>> > then rebuild cabal-install, and things should go fine.
>> 
>> ben at sarun: .../software/haskell > darcs get --partial
>> http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal
>> Copying patch 115 of 115... done!
>> Applying patch 114 of 114... done.
>> Finished getting.
>> ben at sarun: .../software/haskell > cd cabal
>> ben at sarun: .../haskell/cabal > runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
>> 
>> Distribution/Simple/NHC.hs:77:1: lexical error at character 'i'
> 
> Well, Cabal cannot automatically compile itself with itself.

Ok, I didn't know that. I thought it would work since I have the latest
release of Cabal installed (1.2.2.0).

> Use:
> 
> $ make

That did  it. Many thanks. No more runhaskell Setup.[l]hs for me ;-)

Cheers
Ben