[Haskell-cafe] Takusen 0.8.3 install problems

[Praki Prakash]

Don,

Thanks for the hint. I removed Setup.hs and tried "cabal build".  I
get an error that build type is custom and Setup.lhs is missing. What
is the magical incantation needed to do the default build?

Thanks
Praki

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> praki.prakash:
>> I am trying to install Takusen 0.8.3 with ghc 6.10.1 on Ubuntu 8.04
>> (same issue on Win XP as well). I get the following complaint from
>> cabal.
>>
>>    Module
>>    `Distribution.PackageDescription'
>>    does not export
>>    `writeHookedBuildInfo'
>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> Takusen-0.8.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>> exit: ExitFailure 1
>
> You can probably just remove the Setup.lhs and build with defaults
> (we're doing that at galois, we use Takusen).
>
> -- Don
>