On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:26 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:08 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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- Found that on hackage, downloaded and built OK. Lots of scary warnings about happy, greencard etc, not being found during configure, but let's go on.

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I've complained about these before, although I don't think anyone considered doing anything about it.

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We know what needs to change, but it's not a trivial change.

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The problem is that currently .cabal files to not specify what build tools they need,

A possible stop-gap might be to only report the build tools that were actually found? The way it is now, it looks too much like an error message.

Mmm, good point. Perhaps we could just change the verbosity of that message for now, so that it doesn't appear at the default verbosity level. Duncan