[Haskell-cafe] errors while installing yesod 0.8

[Michael Litchard]

New information, may be helpful.

I manually installed hamlet 0.8 with cabal-dev, and it seemed to
install. Here is the message


Registering hamlet-0.8.0...
Installing library in
/home/mlitchard/hamlet-0.8.0/cabal-dev//lib/hamlet-0.8.0/ghc-6.12.3
Registering hamlet-0.8.0...

Then I tried to manually install yesod. Here's what I got.

mlitchard at apotheosis:~$ cd yesod-0.8.0/
mlitchard at apotheosis:~/yesod-0.8.0$ cabal-dev install
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: cannot configure yesod-0.8.0. It requires hamlet ==0.8.*
There is no available version of hamlet that satisfies ==0.8.*

I noticed it did not install in the $HOME/.cabal/ path. How do make
sure it does that?
I think if I can get it to install in the right place this will work out.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Michael Litchard <michael at schmong.org> wrote:
>> mlitchard at apotheosis:~/monad-control$ cabal install
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> Configuring monad-control-0.2.0.1...
>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> monad-control-0.2.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>> ExitFailure 11
>>
>>
>> note: I've been trying to use the cab command to manage my packages, I
>> get the same error as above when I use cab instead of cabal.I mention
>> this just in case there is some unforseen problem having to do with
>> cab/cabal interaction.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced this problem, or know what I can do to get more
>> useful error messages that might reveal the cause of the breakage?
>
> You might learn more by issuing the configure / build steps manually
> (I think `cabal configure` will produce an error).  Upping the
> verbosity will also help:
>
> # get pages and pages of details:
> $ cabal install --verbose=3
>
> I would first suggest trying cabal-dev, though (cab can delegate to
> cabal-dev now too, but I haven't played with it yet).
>
> $ cabal-dev install yesod-0.8
>
> will either work or fail in a way that we can more easily reproduce.
>
> --Rogan
>