[Haskell-cafe] Re: need help for cabal-install

[Steve Lihn]

Just tried to test drive another feature and got the nasty error:

> cabal list
Stack space overflow: current size 8388608 bytes.
Use `+RTS -Ksize' to increase it.


On Jan 19, 2008 9:27 AM, Steve Lihn <stevelihn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008 9:18 AM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I think you're just missing a "--user":
> > >
> > >    $ cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user foo
> >
> > The prefix can also be set in the $HOME/.cabal/config file.
> >
>
> Syntax? Something like: prefix: /path/to/my/ghc ?
>
> > BTW, In the development version of cabal-install --user is the default
> > and the default user prefix is $HOME/.cabal (though both can be changed
> > in the config file).
> >
>
> Is this newer than 12 hours ago? I tried "cabal install --prefix=/path
> package" (without --user). That did not seem to work...
>
> Steve
>