[Haskell-cafe] GHC 7, Platform 2011.2 vs OS X 10.5, Ubuntu 11.04

[Jacek Generowicz]

On 2011 May 23, at 14:42, Daniel Fischer wrote:

> On Monday 23 May 2011 14:16:43, Jacek Generowicz wrote:

>> If by "cabal install" you mean use the command "cabal" ... yeah, that
>> would be great, if only I could install cabal-install, which fails.
>
> With what error?
> Downloading and unpacking the .tar.gz bundle and then running
>
> $ ./bootstrap.sh
>
> in that directory should work.

Below is what I get *now* having just successfully installed a fresh  
GHC 7.0.3 and HP 2011.2.0.1. By "successfully installed" I mean that  
configure, make and make install didn't throw up any errors. I haven't  
tested that anything works yet.

$ ./bootstrap.sh
Checking installed packages for ghc-7.0.3...
parsec-2.1.0.1 will be downloaded and installed.
network is already installed and the version is ok.
Cabal-1.8.0.2 will be downloaded and installed.
mtl-1.1.0.2 will be downloaded and installed.
HTTP-4000.0.8 will be downloaded and installed.
zlib is already installed and the version is ok.

Downloading parsec-2.1.0.1...

...

Downloading Cabal-1.8.0.2...

...

[56 of 58] Compiling Distribution.Simple.UserHooks ( Distribution/ 
Simple/UserHooks.hs, Distribution/Simple/UserHooks.o )
[57 of 58] Compiling Distribution.Simple ( Distribution/Simple.hs,  
Distribution/Simple.o )
[58 of 58] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o )
Linking Setup ...
Configuring Cabal-1.8.0.2...
Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
base >=4 && <3 && >=1 && <5, filepath >=1 && <1.2

Error during cabal-install bootstrap:
Configuring the Cabal package failed


>
>> Or do you mean "manual install" of Cabal packages?
>
> That's not very comfortable, since you have to chase dependencies  
> manually.
> Spending some effort to get cabal-install installed is definitely  
> worth it.

My thoughts exactly.