[Haskell-cafe] Leksah Install Issue (cabal experts please help)

[Hamish Mackenzie]

On 13 Mar 2012, at 16:51, Hamish Mackenzie wrote:

> On 13 Mar 2012, at 15:56, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>>> Even if you "cabal unpack" and then modify the .cabal file and run "cabal install" it still fails with the same error.
>> 
>> How did you modify it?  Did you change the "cabal-version" field as well?
> 
> I changed cabal-version and removed the test-suites.  I think it must be looking at all the available versions of the package (in hackage).
> 
>>> If you can think of a better solution than asking users to install GHC 7.0.4 or 7.4.1 to build cabal-install, then please let me know.
>> 
>> Just build a newer version of cabal-install based upon Cabal-1.10 ?
> 
> 
> I just tried this and it works...
> 
> cabal install Cabal-1.10.0.2
> cabal install cabal-install
> cabal install leksah-server
> 
> Thanks Ivan

Oops transposed the last two parts of the version number.  It should should have read...

cabal install Cabal-1.10.2.0
cabal install cabal-install
cabal install leksah-server