On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:22 +0100, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
On Nov 4, 2007, at 17:10 , Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote:
it works fine for me, but I only have GHC 6.6.1 at the moment. What platform are you on?
It'll be using Cabal-1.2.2.0
I'm not sure what the dist/Conftest.c error is about. I'm CC:ing cabal-devel, perhaps some other Cabal hacker can help.
Yes, so what changed is that configuring ghc now tests ld to see if it supports the -x flag. This involves creating some temp files. At the moment it assumes that the dist dir exists since this is the case when we're doing configure. Unfortunately of course this is not the case when cabal-install configures the compiler. I suppose the right thing is for the ghc ld -x test to use the temp dir rather than assuming the existence of the dist dir. I'm not sure how we should work around that in cabal-install to make it work with the released Cabal. Duncan