Re: Booting ghc with system-wide installed Cabal?

Ömer Sinan Ağacan writes:

Currently we have to build Cabal from scratch after every make clean. Ideally I should be able to skip this step by installing the correct versions of Cabal and cabal-install system-wide, but as far as I can see we currently doesn't support this. Any ideas on how to make this work?

Indeed we currently don't support this since ghc-pkg uses the Cabal API which changes from release to release. I suspect you could hack Hadrian to make this work (assuming you guaranteed that the system Cabal is compatible with the in-tree version), but I'm not sure it's something that we really want to encourage users to do. Cheers, - Ben