[Haskell-cafe] cabal configure && cabal build && cabal install

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Mon Nov 26 02:08:47 CET 2012


On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 06:09:26PM -0500, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
> 
> If you begin with "cabal configure", the correct idiom is:
> 
> cabal configure [flags]
> cabal build
> [cabal haddock, if you want]
> cabal copy
> cabal register

Even this does not do the same thing as 'cabal install', because it
does not download and install any dependencies (whereas 'cabal
install' does).

-Brent



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