[Haskell-cafe] Cabal warning

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Tue Oct 21 18:52:37 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 00:05 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
> L.S.,
> 
> I keep getting the following warning for each "cabal install" command:
>     Warning: Error parsing config file C:\Documents and
>     Settings\[User]\Application Data\cabal\config: On line 1: GHC
>     Warning: Using default configuration.
> 
> The first line of this file is:
> compiler: GHC
> 
> What can I do about this?

Can you save a copy of the file and attach it to a new ticket at:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/

I'll look into why it's not parsing the old format correctly.

Once you've done that, you can delete the file and let it re-create a
default one.

Duncan



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