Hello all, When updating my cabal-install to work with ghc-6.12, I got:
cabal configure cabal: This version of the cabal program is too old to work with ghc-6.12+. You will need to install the 'cabal-install' package version 0.8 or higher. If you still have an older ghc installed (eg 6.10.4), run: $ cabal install -w ghc-6.10.4 'cabal-install >= 0.8'
cabal install -w ghc-6.10.4 'cabal-install >= 0.8' cabal: "'cabal-install" is not valid syntax for a package name or package dependency.
cabal install -w ghc-6.10.4 "cabal-install >= 0.8" cabal: Cannot find the program 'ghc' at 'ghc-6.10.4' or on the path
cabal install -w c:\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\bin\ghc "cabal-install >= 0.8" Resolving dependencies... (...)
Then all worked fine. Note that I had ghc-6.12.1 on the PATH and this is Windows XP 64bit. I found the first message rather informative, but unfortunately the command given does not work on Windows in general, as far as I know. For starters, the shell doesn't seem to like single quotes, but moreover, the full path to the ghc binary has to be supplied, as no symbolic links such as "ghc-6.10.4" are available. Perhaps these messages could be updated to be more helpful to Windows users? Cheers, Pedro