On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Brent Yorgey <byor...@seas.upenn.edu>wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:47:30PM +0100, Ozgur Akgun wrote: > > Hi, > > > > cabal installing haskell-src-exts fails, because of an unlisted > dependency > > to the happy executable. > > It does list a dependency on happy: > > Build-Tools: happy >= 1.17 > > If I understand correctly, the problem is that cabal does not track > packages which only install executables. So all it can do is give an > error if a 'happy' executable is not found; there is no way to have it > automatically install happy if it is not. This is a well-known > limitation of cabal-install rather than a problem with the > haskell-src-exts package in particular. Yep, what Brent said. See this ticket: http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-src-exts/ticket/59 Cheers, /Niklas
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