Building cabal with cabal fails?

[Simon Marlow]

Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:
> On 8/17/06, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Using GHC 6.4.2, in prepration for some cabal hacking, I decided to
>> download Cabal from darcs and install it.
>>
>> darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal --partial
>> cd Cabal
>> runhaskell Setup configure
>>
>> And I get the error:
>>
>> ./Distribution/Simple.hs:61:1: lexical error
>>
>> Should this work? If not, what should I be doing.
> 
> 
> Arguably, it should.  Unfortunately it doesn't.  I think this is what I do
> with ghc (in Windows):
> 
> ghc -hide-all-packages -package base -package Cabal Setup.lhs -o setup
> 
> But of course that requires one cabal already installed and working.
> If you have ghc 6.4.2, that should be no problem.  I think it used to
> be possible just to pass -cpp and compile setup using the Distribution-
> sources in tree, but that stopped working at some point.

ghc --make -cpp Setup.lhs

works for me.  Also adding -i will cause it to use whatever Cabal you have 
installed instead of the sources in the tree.

When you say it stopped working at some point, what are you referring to?

Cheers,
	Simon