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

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 13 March 2012 15:03, Hamish Mackenzie
<hamish.k.mackenzie at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On 13 Mar 2012, at 16:56, Hamish Mackenzie wrote:
>
>>
>> On 13 Mar 2012, at 16:51, Hamish Mackenzie wrote:
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>>> 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
>
> This also works...
> cabal install --constrain='Cabal>=1.10.2' cabal-install
> cabal install leksah-server

Wouldn't just a "cabal update && cabal install cabal-install" work to
bring in the newest version of cabal-install (which requires
Cabal-1.10.*) ?

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