Re: [wxhaskell-users] cabal install wx

2009-08-08 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 00:50:00 +0100, Eric Y. Kow wrote: > > Could you explain a little more? I don't understand the part after "I > > haven't worked out how ...". > > I'm dimly aware that we build this wxc library that wxcore is > dynamically linked against (I think) I'll also add that a past

Re: [wxhaskell-users] cabal install wx

2009-08-08 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 18:36:10 -0500, Brian Lewis wrote: > > In the darcs version of wxHaskell, I've also attempted to split > > wxcore off so that it is cleanly Cabalised (just the Simple build > > method), but I haven't worked out how to make it point the wxc > > package that we would have to b

Re: [wxhaskell-users] cabal install wx

2009-08-08 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Brian, Does this work better? cabal install wx --configure-opt="--user --enable-split-objs --hcprof" (The key difference is the --configure-opt) On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 14:00:49 -0500, Brian Lewis wrote: > If there is some technical reason wx cannot be installed as a user > package, I'd like to

Re: [wxhaskell-users] cabal install wx

2009-08-08 Thread Brian Lewis
On Saturday, 08.08.09 at 13:41, S. Doaitse Swierstra wrote: > Did you recently install something using the sudo command? That may have > changed the permissions/ownership of the pacckage.conf. I think package.conf's ownership and permissions are as they should be, root:root 644. The wx cabal pack

Re: [wxhaskell-users] cabal install wx

2009-08-08 Thread Brian Lewis
On Saturday, 08.08.09 at 20:37, S. Doaitse Swierstra wrote: > But this suggests that your Haskell installation is a global one, so > you should us: > > sudo cabal install wx I absolutely should *not* do that. It's not reasonable for the wx cabal package to modify files under the jurisdiction of so

Re: [wxhaskell-users] cabal install wx

2009-08-08 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
But this suggests that your Haskell installation is a global one, so you should us: sudo cabal install wx See discussions on the various mailing lists about permissions and install locations for cabal. This has caused quite some confusion, and not only to you. Doaitse On 8 aug 2009, at 1

Re: [wxhaskell-users] cabal install wx

2009-08-08 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
Did you recently install something using the sudo command? That may have changed the permissions/ownership of the pacckage.conf. Doaitse On 8 aug 2009, at 03:09, Brian Lewis wrote: > I appreciate all the hard work that went into WxHaskell, and the > effort > going into its continued devel