[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 21:00 +0100, Thomas Schilling wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:46 +0100, Ben Franksen wrote:

> > 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'
> > 
> > Ups.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Ben (feels like a real beta-tester now ;-)
> 
> Well, Cabal cannot automatically compile itself with itself.

No actually it can, that was just a bug (which I've just fixed). Ben is
indeed being a beta tester by using Cabal HEAD. I'd recommend the 1.2
branch:

http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-branches/cabal-1.2/

Or just darcs pull and try again.

Duncan