On 13 March 2012 12:33, Hamish Mackenzie <hamish.k.macken...@googlemail.com> wrote: > pozic raised an install issue on IRC. Basically he was getting... > > ~$ cabal install leksah-server > Resolving dependencies... > cabal: Couldn't read cabal file "leksah-server/0.12.0.3/leksah-server.cabal" > > To reproduce this issue. Use GHC 6.12.3, 7.0.3 or 7.2.2 to "cabal install > cabal-install" then run "cabal install leksah-server". > > To work around it install GHC 7.0.4 or 7.4.1 and use it to run "cabal install > cabal-install" (then you can go back to the old GHC if you want). > > > Cabal experts, is there a better work around than this? > > The current leksah-server.cabal requires Cabal 1.10.2 or greater because it > has a "test-suite" section for "cabal test". > > This is fine if you have installed cabal-install with GHC 7.0.4 or 7.4.1, but > if you install cabal-install with older versions of GHC (including 7.2.2) > then it can't handle the file format. > > I could upload a new leksah-server to hackage (with the unit tests removed), > but that would not stop cabal-install from failing to read leksah-server > 0.12.0.3 and bombing out (there is already a 0.12.0.4 and it is not getting > to that one). > > Even if you "cabal unpack" and then modify the .cabal file and run "cabal > install" it still fails with the same error.
How did you modify it? Did you change the "cabal-version" field as well? > > If you can think of a better solution than asking users to install GHC 7.0.4 > or 7.4.1 to build cabal-install, then please let me know. Just build a newer version of cabal-install based upon Cabal-1.10 ? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
