[Haskell-cafe] Missing dependency?

[Jonathan Cast]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:13 -0700, Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Since the time package is not included in ghc-6.10.2, I installed it
> via cabal. Then I tried to configure my project, and it says that the
> dependency is missing. Mysterious. Can anyone explain?
> 
> lwk at lwk-desktop:~/devel/vintage-basic$ ghc-pkg list
> /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2/./package.conf:
>     Cabal-1.6.0.3, HUnit-1.2.0.3, QuickCheck-1.2.0.0, array-0.2.0.0,
>     base-3.0.3.1, base-4.1.0.0, bytestring-0.9.1.4,
> containers-0.2.0.1,
>     directory-1.0.0.3, (dph-base-0.3), (dph-par-0.3),
>     (dph-prim-interface-0.3), (dph-prim-par-0.3), (dph-prim-seq-0.3),
>     (dph-seq-0.3), editline-0.2.1.0, filepath-1.1.0.2, (ghc-6.10.2),
>     ghc-prim-0.1.0.0, haddock-2.4.2, haskell-src-1.0.1.3,
>     haskell98-1.0.1.0, hpc-0.5.0.3, html-1.0.1.2, integer-0.1.0.1,
>     mtl-1.1.0.2, network-2.2.1, old-locale-1.0.0.1, old-time-1.0.0.2,
>     packedstring-0.1.0.1, parallel-1.1.0.1, parsec-2.1.0.1,
>     pretty-1.0.1.0, process-1.0.1.1, random-1.0.0.1,
>     regex-base-0.72.0.2, regex-compat-0.71.0.1, regex-posix-0.72.0.3,
>     rts-1.0, stm-2.1.1.2, syb-0.1.0.1, template-haskell-2.3.0.1,
>     unix-2.3.2.0, xhtml-3000.2.0.1
> /home/lwk/.ghc/i386-linux-6.10.2/package.conf:
>     HTTP-4000.0.4, time-1.1.2.3, zlib-0.5.0.0
> lwk at lwk-desktop:~/devel/vintage-basic$ runhaskell Setup.hs configure
> Configuring vintage-basic-1.0.1...
> Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> time >=1.1
> lwk at lwk-desktop:~/devel/vintage-basic$ 

You need to use runhaskell Setup.hs configure --user, or else re-install
time globally (as root).

jcc