On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 09:50 +0000, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: > | Actually I'd suggest you use the Cabal and cabal-install that are part > | of the ghc source tree, rather than Cabal/cabal-install HEAD. The two > | are not always the same. > > Aha ok, thank you. How exactly do I do that? Where is the executable > cabal-install in the tree? IN inplace/bin I see an executable > ghc-cabal. Is that it? > > Alternatively, "Plan B" on > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Debugging/InstallingPackagesInplace > (which I confess I'd forgotten about) describes a different plan that > doesn't mention cabal-install at all. Is that better?
To follow up on a rather old thread: I included a little backwards compatibility hack (which I think made it into RC2) so that other users will not hit this, so that they can continue to use an old version of cabal-install with 7.10. For context, the error you and others were seeing was: > ghc-stage2: ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases > (dist/package.conf.inplace) use 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database > with the correct format. -- Duncan Coutts, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
