I think there's now hosted official cabal install binaries online. I'm Afk but they should be a short google away. Should be linked more prominently though
On Saturday, May 3, 2014, Ashley Yakeley <ash...@semantic.org> wrote: > So I want to install GHC + cabal on a new system, building cabal packages > with profiling and documentation. Here's what I have to do: > > 1. Download, unpack and install GHC. > > 2. Download and unpack cabal-install, and run bootstrap.sh. As part of the > bootstrap, it will download and build a bunch of packages. > > 3. Delete the downloaded packages ("rm -rf ~/.ghc/*") because they were > built without profiling or documentation. > > 4. Call "cabal update" to get a default .cabal/config file. > > 5. Edit .cabal/config to switch on library-profiling, > executable-profiling, and documentation. > > 6. Build my stuff. > > This would be much simplified if binary versions of cabal-install were > available. (It would be even simpler if they were just included in the GHC > builds -- I could eliminate 2 & 3.) > > -- Ashley Yakeley > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >
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