[Haskell-cafe] Cabal packaging problem - Build-Depends name for Network.Curl.Download?

[Don Stewart]

goofyheadedpunk:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm having a small bit of trouble using cabal to package a program I'm
> calling aule. I cannot build the program using cabal but can compile
> it using ghc directly. Here's my aule.config:
> 
> Name:                Aule
> Version:             0.2.0
> Cabal-Version:       >= 1.2
> Build-type:          Simple
> 
> Author:              Brian L. Troutwine
> Maintainer:          goofyheadedpunk at gmail.com
> Stability:           alpha
> 
> Executable aule
>   Build-Depends:        base, network, bytestring, download-curl
>   Main-Is:              Main.hs
>   Hs-Source-Dirs:       src
>   ghc-options:          -Wall -O2
> 
> If I decend into src/ the result is as follows.
> 
> blt at doritos:~/aule/src
> $ ghc -Wall -O2 --make Main.hs
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, Main.o )
> Linking Main ...
> 
> If I attempt to use cabal the result is the following.
> 
> blt at doritos:~/aule
> $ runhaskell Setup.hs configure --prefix=$HOME
> Configuring Aule-0.2.0...
> Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> download-curl -any
> 
> I've attempted variations on the download-curl name, as well. Also,
> download-curl was install using the nifty cabal-install tool. I run
> Ubuntu 8.04 with ghc 6.8.2.

Probably because download-curl is installed as "user", so:

    $ runhaskell Setup.hs configure --prefix=$HOME --user

OR:

    $ cabal install