[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

[Johan Tibell]

I pasted your report into the bug tracker:
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1478

I don't know if you're on GitHub or not so I could link the report to your user.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran into another oddity due to old build artifacts today -- it was easy to
> fix, but very confusing; cabal repl was exiting with "unrecognised command:
> repl".
>
> tl/dr; if you see this, delete the old 'dist' dir and re-run 'cabal
> configure'.
>
> Here's a snippit of my shell session to explain in more detail:
>
> $ cabal sandbox init
> ...
>  $ cabal --version
> cabal-install version 1.18.0
> using version 1.18.0 of the Cabal library
>  $ cabal configure
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring pgftransform-0.0.0.1...
>  $ cabal repl
> unrecognised command: repl (try --help)
>  $ cabal --help
> ...
> Commands:
> ...
>   build        Compile all targets or specific targets.
>   repl         Open an interpreter session for the given target.
>   sandbox      Create/modify/delete a sandbox.
>  ...
>
> Note that cabal --version and cabal --help indicated that repl /was/ a valid
> command.
>
> The issue appears to be that an old dist directory was still hanging around,
> and (I suspect) the compiled setup.hs build program (which would have been
> built with an old Cabal) was causing the actual error.  Deleting the dist
> dir and re-running cabal configure set everything right.
>
> --Rogan
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Yuri de Wit <ydewit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It is easy enough to recreate the link manually or as easy to run cabal
>> install again, but that is not the point here. The point is that it will
>> bite the next dozen of unsuspecting users since, at first, they have no idea
>> of what is going on.
>>
>> In any case, apologies for sending this in this thread as it doesn't seem
>> the right forum to discuss it.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Paolo Giarrusso <p.giarrusso at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:41:33 PM UTC+2, Yuri de Wit wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the hard work!
>>>>
>>>> If you see this in OSX (#1009) while installing cabal 1.18:
>>>>
>>>> Warning: could not create a symlink in /Users/lemao/Library/Haskell/bin
>>>> for
>>>> cabal because the file exists there already but is not managed by cabal.
>>>> You
>>>> can create a symlink for this executable manually if you wish. The
>>>> executable
>>>> file has been installed at
>>>> /Users/user/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.6.3/lib/cabal-install-1.18.0/bin/cabal
>>>>
>>>> You will need to manually remove the pre-existing 1.16 links in
>>>> ~/Library/Haskell/bin before installing again.
>>>
>>>
>>> Instead of installing again, you can even just recreate the symlink as
>>> mentioned by the message (if you know how to do that).
>>
>>
>>
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