[xmonad] xmonad development (was: something in particular)

[Anthony Campbell]

On 09 Nov 2011, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Anthony Campbell <ac at acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> > Thanks to both for replies. There isn't much in the way of error
> > messages:
> >
> > arcadia:~/xmonad-compile:$ cabal install
> > Resolving dependencies...
> > cabal: There is no installed version of base
> > arcadia:~/xmonad-compile:$
> >
> 
> Try it with cabal-dev:
> 
>  $ cabal install cabal-dev
>  $ cd ~/xmonad-compile
>  $ cabal-dev install
> 
> If it works, then the problem is related to your ghc user package db,
> if it fails, then look at the global package db and see if that looks
> wrong.  If that looks right, then something weird is going on, but I
> suspect the previous steps will shed more light on the problem.
> 
> (It's possible you'll have a similar issue building cabal-dev, but
> let's hope not, at least for the moment.)
> 
> --Rogan
> 

It seemed to work as far as the last step, with a lot of downloading and
compiling. But cabal-dev didn't work until I located it in
~/.cabal/bin/. But again it complains about base:

arcadia:~/xmonad-compile:$ ~/.cabal/bin/cabal-dev install
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: There is no installed version of base
arcadia:~/xmonad-compile:$ 

Probably time to give up, I think. 

Anthony



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