On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:08 -0400, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: > Duncan -- > > On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > BTW, how did you get the package installed in that location? Did it > > involve copying into a temp dir and copying again? I believe that on > > OSX, copying a .a file breaks the ar index. This is because for > > reasons > > best known to themselves Apple decided that the index is only valid if > > its timestamp is the same as the last modification time of the file. > > Oh -- and that's because instead of the supplied bootstrap.sh I used > one off some website, and it used /tmp which somehow put stuff in > there and registered it there. I then unregistered it and removed it > and redid the cabal-install, and it worked with my patched ar.
Ahhh. So is there anything in Cabal or the bootstrap.sh that needs to be fixed for this problem? Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
