On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 10:02 +0200, Thomas Davie wrote: > >> It really rather makes "cabal install" rather odd – because it > >> doesn't actually install anything you can use without providing extra > >> options! > > > > It should work fine, you'll need to give more details. > > This has been the result, at least every time I've installed ghc: > > $ cabal install xyz
So this does a per-user install. > $ runhaskell Setup.hs configure -- where abc depends on xyz This does a global install. Global packages cannot depend on user packages. You have two choices: $ cabal configure because the cabal program does --user installs by default or use $ runhaskell Setup.hs configure --user which explicitly does a --user install. The reason for this confusion is because the original runghc Setup interface started with global installs and we can't easily change that default. On the other hand, per-user installs are much more convenient so that's the sensible default for the 'cabal' command line program. Personally I just always use the 'cabal' program and never use the runghc Setup interface. There's almost never any need to use the runghc Setup interface. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
