[Haskell-cafe] Cabal, Time & GHC 6.10.2

[Dominic Steinitz]

Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 09:17 +0100, Dominic Steinitz wrote:
>> I get
>>
>>> dom at linux-6ofq:~/asn1> runghc Setup.hs configure
>>> Configuring PER-0.0.20...
>>> Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>>> time -any && -any
>> but I have time
>>
>>> dom at linux-6ofq:~/asn1> ghc-pkg list | grep time
>>>     old-locale-1.0.0.1, old-time-1.0.0.2, packedstring-0.1.0.1,
>>>     time-1.1.2.4
>> I think I can see why cabal isn't finding it:
>>
>>> ghc-pkg dump --global | grep time-1.1.2.4
>> finds nothing and I believe that is what cabal uses to find things.
> 
> The default for "runghc Setup.hs configure" is --global, but the default
> for "cabal configure" is --user. So if you're using the "cabal" program
> to install packages, then you can also us it to configure other
> packages. If for you need to use the runghc Setup.hs interface (e.g. in
> some system build scripts) and you want it to pick up packages from the
> user package db then use the --user flag. If you're constantly having to
> use the runghc Setup.hs interface and doing per-user installs is a pain
> then you can set the default for the cabal program to be global installs
> in the cabal config file (~/.cabal/config).
> 
> I'll add this issue to the FAQ, it come up enough. If anyone else
> reading would like to eliminate this FAQ, then implementing this ticket
> is the answer:
> 
>         suggest use of --user if configure fails with missing deps that
>         are in the user db
>         http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/384
> 
> Duncan
> 
> 
> 
Duncan,

Thanks very much. I'm happy to update the FAQ this weekend unless you
have already done it.

Dominic.