[Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

[Antoine Latter]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrew
Coppin<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>
>> Alrighty then, so how I just do Setup configure, and now Setup sdist, and
>> then I can upload the result to Ha-- oh, don't be silly. That would simply
>> be too easy. ;-)
>>
>> E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>runhaskell Setup sdist
>> Building source dist for AOC-HalfInteger-1.0...
>> Preprocessing library AOC-HalfInteger-1.0...
>> Setup: tar is required but it could not be found.
>>
>> Time to go search the web and find out what the other 50 people who
>> stumbled into this did... *sigh*
>
> Ah. Apparently it's "fixed":
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/40
>
> Except that it isn't fixed. Yay for me...
>
> It seems that GHC provides ar but not tar. Looks like I might actually have
> to copy the entire directory tree to a Linux box just so I can run sdist...
> Nice to know this stuff is so easy. :-/
>

I don't know anything that's gauranteed to work, as I've never tried
packaging from a Windows box, but:

 - Is 'htar' a good enough 'tar' replacement for cabal?
 - Does cabal-install also require an external tar? You could try "cabal sdist"

Antoine