[Haskell-cafe] Building lambdabot

[Gwern Branwen]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Max Bolingbroke
<batterseapower at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 January 2011 20:50, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Notice the flag defaults to False, not True. When I tried it with True, I got:
>>
>> $ cabal install
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> cabal: dependencies conflict: base-3.0.3.2 requires syb ==0.1.0.2 however
>> syb-0.1.0.2 was excluded because syb-0.3 was selected instead
>> syb-0.1.0.2 was excluded because show-0.4.1 requires syb ==0.3.*
>
> Suprising. It certainly seems to contradict my understanding of how
> Cabal works (which is derived from
> http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/authors.html#conditional-resolution)
>
> Anyway, I'm glad that you have recorded a patch which at least gives
> GHC 7 a chance of working. If I knew where the repo was I would try it
> out (it doesn't seem to be linked anywhere from
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/show/0.4.1/show.cabal).

It's just a folder in the lambdabot repo, as is lambdabot-utils and
unlambda and brainfuck.

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gwern
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