Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2008 21:31 schrieb Emmanuel:

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I am having troubles bulding the plugins package :

manu:~/Desktop/tmp manu$ cabal install plugins Resolving dependencies... cabal: cannot configure plugins-1.2. It requires ghc >=6.8

That is the ghc-api package, of which it requires a version >= 6.8. Could you verify that you have it installed (ghc-pkg list will tell you what you have)?

it's not listed by ghc-pkg list, I have ... {ghc-6.8.1}, {ghc-6.8.2} ... where do I get it ? It's not listed on Hackage

If the output of your ghc-pkg list contains something like filepath-1.1.0.0, (ghc-6.8.2), haskell-src-1.0.1.1, you have the package (the parentheses indicate that it's hidden), version 6.8.2 in this case, which clearly should be >= 6.8. Then I don't know what the problem is, maybe it would work if you manually exposed the package before cabal installing, but I doubt it. Have you tried to manually go through the runghc Setup.lhs configure / build / install routine? If your version of cabal install isn't new enough, have you already tried upgrading that? If nothing helps, ask on Haskell-cafe, there are people familiar with the workings of cabal there.

Thanks

Emmanuel

Cheers, Daniel