Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

The "Setup makefile" refactoring you did was a little over-ambitious, [...]

As was my bug report, which should have had the following attachment. Oops!

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

Hi, Simon -

The "Setup makefile" refactoring you did was a little over-ambitious, and ended up doing a complete serial build before it generated any Makefile :-)

In fact it appears that this was the result of Malcolm's recent changes: Tue Apr 24 11:42:44 BST 2007 Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk * pretend that Cabal can build with nhc98 M ./Distribution/Simple/Build.hs +2 Mon Feb 12 17:14:19 GMT 2007 Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk * minor tweaks to nhc98 branches of case distinctions M! ./Distribution/Simple/Build.hs -1 +7 M ./Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs -1 +1 M ./Distribution/Simple/Install.hs -1 +2 M ./Distribution/Simple/NHC.hs -8 +13 M ./Distribution/Simple/Register.hs -1 +5 Anyway I've pushed your patch which looks like the right fix. Thanks! Cheers, Simon