shelarcy writes:

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:48:13 +0900, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal --partial cd Cabal runhaskell Setup configure

And I get the error:

./Distribution/Simple.hs:61:1: lexical error

Should this work? If not, what should I be doing.

If Distribution directory is in the same directory, runhaskell find and use that. So, Setup.(l)hs import Distribution directory's source file, not ghc's Distribution/*. And ./Distribution/Simple.hs uses C preprocessor, so that cause lexical error.

If you want to solve this error, you should use cpp option like this.

runhaskell -cpp Setup.lhs configure runhaskell -cpp Setup.lhs build runhaskell -cpp Setup.lhs install

Or you have to change to add below pragma per file that you can see lexical error.

{-# OPTIONS -cpp #-}

This is a known problem with bootstrapping. Maybe this is something cabal-setup should look for. That's why the makefile has "make setup" for bootstrapping. peace, isaac