And to make many, many peoples life easier the binaries could have been included in ghc 6.10.2 (but I know there are some philosophical reasons against it).
-- Lennart On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > daniel.is.fischer: >> Am Sonntag 05 April 2009 10:24:25 schrieb Ashley Yakeley: >> > Duncan Coutts wrote: >> > > In the mean time you can just: >> > > >> > > $ cabal install time >> > >> > Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine >> > and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal >> > install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I >> > don't know how to tie the knot in this case. >> >> Download the cabal-install .tar.gz from Hackage, unpack it. >> There's a script bootstrap.sh in the directory, run that, it wgets zlib and >> HTTP and >> installs them, after that, it installs cabal-install and you're ready to go. >> If you're on windows, there's a cabal binary installer somewhere (should be >> findable from the cabal homepage, I believe). >> _______________________________________________ > > There are binaries of the 'cabal' command on many distros too. > > -- Don > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users