Cabal fails to install package with executables
Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev
alexey at cs.uu.nl
Tue Dec 6 15:37:07 EST 2005
Hi! I am making a Cabal package containing executables. Most options to
the Setup.hs script work except installation. The error seemed so
obvious that I thought it my own. But trying with one of Cabal's
testcases I discovered the same error.
Take the wash2hs example found in the tests directory. Taking a quick
look at (wash2hs.cabal)
http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/libraries/Cabal/
tests/wash2hs/wash2hs.cabal?rev=1.5;content-type=text%2Fplain
We can see that
- The sources live in the hs directory
- The main hs file is WASHMain.hs and
- The executable is wash2hs
I run "configure" and "build" with no problems, but when calling
"Setup.hs" with "install -v" I get:
--------
$ runghc Setup.lhs install -v
Installing: /opt/lib/Wash-2hs-1.4.34 & /opt/bin Wash-2hs-1.4.34...
copy dist/build/wash2hs to /opt/bin/wash2hs
*** Exception: dist/build/wash2hs: copyFile: does not exist (No such
file or directory)
---------
Although the built binary is placed in dist/build/hs, Cabal insists on
reading the binary from dist/build for installation.
I am running the 6.4.1 GHC generic binary for x86 linux systems. I
downloaded the test case from the 1.0 distribution of Cabal, I checked
that it is the same as in CVS.
I welcome all hints.
Cheers,
Alexey
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