On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:46 +0100, Ben Franksen wrote: > Don Stewart wrote: > > ben.franksen: > >> cabal: dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist (No such file or > >> directory) > > > > This one is due to having an out of date cabal. Upgrade to darcs cabal, > > then rebuild cabal-install, and things should go fine. > > Ok. So the package is broken in that it doesn't work with the advertised > version of Cabal as stated on hackage: > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/cabal-install-0.4.0 > See the line > > base (>=2.0&&<2.2), Cabal (>=1.2), filepath (>=1.0), HTTP > (>=3000.0&&<3001.1), network, zlib (>=0.3) > > Anyway, I'll follow your advice & install latest cabal from darcs repo. (* > looks for repo URL in Cabal home page; under "Download", nothing, hmmm; ah > it's under "Source Code", right. Wait for darcs to finish getting...here we > go *) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: .../software/haskell > darcs get --partial > http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal > Copying patch 115 of 115... done! > Applying patch 114 of 114... done. > Finished getting. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: .../software/haskell > cd cabal > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: .../haskell/cabal > runhaskell Setup.lhs configure > > Distribution/Simple/NHC.hs:77:1: lexical error at character 'i' > > Ups. > > Cheers > Ben (feels like a real beta-tester now ;-)
Well, Cabal cannot automatically compile itself with itself. Use: $ make _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
