[Haskell-cafe] Cabal-Install Fails To Compile

[Aditya Siram]

Thanks so much for your help. Actually Don got it fixed within twenty minutes but I mistakenly didn't cc the group. But it works perfectly now.

-Deech
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> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal-Install Fails To Compile
> From: duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
> To: aditya_siram at hotmail.com
> CC: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:58:59 +0100
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:07 -0500, Aditya Siram wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I downloaded cabal-install and the cabal-1.4 branch from darcs. The following error occurs when building:
>>> runhaskell Setup.hs build
>> 
>> Building cabal-install-0.4.9...
>> [19 of 27] Compiling Hackage.SrcDist  ( Hackage/SrcDist.hs, dist/build/cabal/cabal-tmp/Hackage/SrcDist.o )
>> 
>> Hackage/SrcDist.hs:58:59:
>>     Couldn't match expected type `Char'
>>            against inferred type `Distribution.Simple.PreProcess.PPSuffixHandler'
>>       Expected type: FilePath
>>       Inferred type: [Distribution.Simple.PreProcess.PPSuffixHandler]
>>     In the fifth argument of `prepareSnapshotTree', namely
>>         `knownSuffixHandlers'
>>     In the second argument of `(>>=)', namely
>>         `prepareSnapshotTree
>>            verbosity pkg mb_lbi tmpDir knownSuffixHandlers'
> 
> Yeah, sorry that was my fault. You caught it in the few hours when the
> two darcs versions were not compatible. They work now, or as Don says,
> get the actual releases from hackage.
> 
> Duncan
> 

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