Hi Lennart, Thanks for the email. Sorry, I wrongly wrote the path "dist" when I meant "dist-newstyle". When I created a fresh project, just doing `cabal new-build' created a binary. Here is what I get in my blog directory. ram@knuth:~/src/newblog$ cabal new-configure Resolving dependencies... In order, the following would be built (use -v for more details): zip-archive-0.3.0.5 pandoc-1.17.2 pandoc-citeproc-0.10.1 hakyll-4.8.3.2 rkrishnan-0.0.1 ram@knuth:~/src/newblog$ cabal new-build . In order, the following will be built (use -v for more details): zip-archive-0.3.0.5 pandoc-1.17.2 pandoc-citeproc-0.10.1 hakyll-4.8.3.2 rkrishnan-0.0.1 Configuring zip-archive-0.3.0.5... ram@knuth:~/src/newblog$ ls dist-newstyle/build/ ram@knuth:~/src/newblog$ cd .. ram@knuth:~/src$ cabal new-build ./new-blog/ BadPackageLocations [BadLocGlobEmptyMatch "./*.cabal"] I will try building and trying the `master' branch. Thanks again. Cheers Ramakrishnan On Fri, Sep 16, 2016, at 05:53 PM, lennart spitzner wrote:

The build artefacts of new-* are placed in a "dist-newstyle" directory.

Another common mistake with 1.24.0.0 is that `cabal new-build` won't do much at all if run in some parent directory. You might need to `cabal new-build ./my-blog/` and then get the artefacts somewhere (burried) in ./my-blog/dist-newstyle/...

(I believe there is some improvement regarding behaviour in the parent directory in master already; certainly was planned.)

Hope that helps.

-- lennart

On 16/09/16 13:40, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote:

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I have a fairly simple hakyll based blog website that I usually build with cabal sandbox.

Today I tried the new-configure/new-build commands. It built a bunch of dependencies but the dist/build directory is empty. It doesn't look like it built the project itself. Subsequent builds are fast as expected. But I still don't see anything in dist/build directory. Am I missing something or doing something silly? Not sure if this is the right list to discuss "user" issues as this is a "devel" list.

I created a new project with `cabal init' and built it with the new style commands and it produced an executable in the expected place.

The cabal-install/Cabal version I am running is 1.24.0.0 (for both) with GHC 8.0.1 on Debian GNU/Linux x86-64.

Thanks

-- Ramakrishnan

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016, at 06:08 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

Hi!

On 2016-09-16 at 14:34:14 +0200, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: [..]

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I will try building and trying the `master' branch. Thanks again.

That's generally recommended with new-build at this point, since a lot of things have improved in cabal 1.25/master since cabal 1.24;

Also, I'd also recommend consulting

http://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nix-local-build-overview.html

for the latest bleeding edge documentation from `master`; if you notice something that's unclear in the documentation, it's a documentation bug and you should either inform us about it, or maybe even provide a pull-request!

Thanks Herbert. -- Ramakrishnan