[Haskell-cafe] Data.Derive problems

[Thomas Davie]

On 10 Jul 2008, at 21:25, Ron Alford wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Neil Mitchell  
> <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ron,
>>
>>> I'm using GHC 6.8.3 with $ cabal --version
>>> cabal-install version 0.5.1
>>> using version 1.4.0.1 of the Cabal library
>>>
>>> I installed Data.Derive from hackage, only to be unable to find the
>>> 'derive' binary!
>>
>> Did you do the runhaskell Setup configure && runhaskell Setup build  
>> &&
>> runhaskell Setup install?
>
> I used 'sudo cabal install derive'.  I did find the binary - in my
> user's .cabal/bin directory!  Odd that it should default to that when
> run as root.
>
> I don't have the darcs version working yet, though.

I've found that cabal install doesn't actually install anything on my  
system either, despite going through all the motions.  I just download  
the tarballs of hackage and config/build/install them myself, and I  
then end up with all the relevant bits installed.

Bob