Quite right this is a problem, and it looks like something we should fix before 6.4.1. I'll give it some thought.
Cheers, Simon On 24 August 2005 14:42, Duncan Coutts wrote: > With our current 6.4.1 snapshot 20050819, we have problems building > when we've got more than over version of cabal registered. > > That is we build it using ghc 6.4 and we have cabal-1.0 and > cabal-1.1.2 installed. Then it complains that multiple packages match > "-package cabal". > > It also has problems when no version of cabal is registered. > > There is no problem building with ghc 6.2.2 with no cabal installed. > > I think it would be much more reliable if ghc did not rely on the > version of cabal installed and registered with ghc 6.4. Since it has > to work without cabal anyway (for the 6.2.2 case), wouldn't it be > possible to make it ignore any installed version of cabal even when > building with ghc 6.4? > > At the moment, it looks like we're going to have problems on gentoo > upgrading users from ghc 6.4 to 6.4.1. Our current idea is to > unregister the Cabal-1.0 package that ghc 6.4 comes with and use a > later version (Cabal-1.1.2 at the moment) however it's not clear that > ghc will cope with using the later version. We need to install the > later version anyway for other reasons (version 1.0 has bugs and > lacks some features we need for reasonable packaging) and ghc 6.4 > does not cope very well with having multiple versions of a package > installed (this is improved in 6.4.1), hence the rationale for > unregistering the 1.0 version entirely. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs