[Haskell-cafe] cabal Setup.hs configure - cabal doesnt produce a setup-config

[Gwern Branwen]

On 2008.05.19 06:53:22 +1000, geoffrey <lordgeoffrey at optushome.com.au> scribbled 1.8K characters:
>    Hi,
>    I am trying to install nanocurses, but cabal isn't creating the setup-config file in dist/
>
>    I have run (and re-run) runghc Setup.hs configure
>    The first time it complained about mpg123 (whatever that is) so i installed the other
>    dependencies - unix & bytestring

The mpg123 warning is leftover from hmp3; mpg123 is a media player hmp3 needs to actually play the audio files. I hadn't noticed it. Obviously it has no relevance to a curses binding, so I've edited that out and uploaded a small version bump.

>    Then i tried to re-run setup configure for nano again. Configure creates the dist directory
>    but no files.
>    I have deleted and untarred the files and retried,but to no avail.
>
>    Any clues?
>    Thanks.
>
>    (OS: Ubuntu hardy, GHC: 6.8.2)

Dunno. If Cabal usually works for you, but just no with nanocurses, my guess would be perhaps the mpg123 check is causing the configure script to bail out?

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gwern
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