Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 12:04 +0100, Dominic Steinitz wrote:

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I'll add this issue to the FAQ, it come up enough. If anyone else reading would like to eliminate this FAQ, then implementing this ticket is the answer:

suggest use of --user if configure fails with missing deps that are in the user db http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/384

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Thanks very much. I'm happy to update the FAQ this weekend unless you have already done it.

Oh that'd be great. The Cabal website is managed as a darcs repo so just:

darcs get http://haskell.org/cabal/

then edit the FAQ.markdown and run make to update the FAQ.html (uses pandoc). Then darcs send the patches to me or the cabal-devel mailing list.

Duncan

Here you go. Dominic.