[Haskell-cafe] test driving cabal install... cabal install and normal install (runghc Setup) don't mix... two package.conf files...

[Thomas Hartman]

By the way, it just finally finished.

I still think it took way too long.

thomas.

2008/5/29 Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>:
> I see. I had done
>
> sudo cabal install HAppS-Server
>
> but this just installed with root ownership in my home directory.
>
> I'm now trying with
>
> sudo cabal install --global HAppS-Server
>
>
> 2008/5/29 Daniel Patterson <daniel at dbpatterson.com>:
>> I think you need to install HAppS-Data etc globally... I'm not sure why
>> locally installed (ie, only your user) packages wouldn't be picked up by runghc
>> Setup.hs'ing, but if they are install system wide it should definitely work.
>>
>> I think it is cabal --global install foo
>>
>> On Thu, 29 May 2008 18:11:04 -0700
>> "Thomas Hartman" <tphyahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> After a little drama with zlib, I managed to get cabal-install installed.
>>>
>>> I then attempted to do
>>>
>>> cabal install HAppS-Server
>>>
>>> since this is a module with a lot of dependencies, and in rapid
>>> development flux, so perenially painful for me to install.
>>>
>>> The result is that I managed to install everything up to HAppS-State,
>>> which I think is the last dependency, but then seemed to hang
>>> indefinitely in the middle of installing HAppS-Server at the end.
>>>
>>> OK, I thought, then perhaps I can do normal runghc Setup.hs after
>>> downloading and unzipping the tar from
>>>
>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HAppS-Server-0.9.2.1
>>>
>>> However, this resulted in error
>>>
>>> thartman at thartman-laptop:~/haskellInstalls/smallInstalls/HAppS-Server-0.9.2.1>runghc
>>> Setup.hs configure
>>> ...
>>> Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>>> HAppS-Data >=0.9.2...
>>>
>>> Strange, because I had just installed that module via cabal-install,
>>> and I could load it in ghci with :m +HappS.Data.
>>>
>>> I then ran ghc-pkg and got this strange result that my packages were
>>> broken into two different files. Is this by design?
>>>
>>> ghc-pkg list
>>> /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf:
>>>     Cabal-1.2.3.0, Cabal-1.3.11, Cabal-1.5.2, DeepArrow-0.2,
>>> ....
>>> /home/thartman/.ghc/i386-linux-6.8.2/package.conf:
>>>     HAppS-Data-0.9.2.1, HAppS-IxSet-0.9.2.1, HAppS-State-0.9.2.1,
>>>
>>>
>>> I am curious if anybody else is able to install HAppS-Server using
>>> cabal install, and whether they can shed any light on the other isuses
>>> I raised.
>>>
>>> Thomas.
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