30 Jul
2008
30 Jul
'08
2:58 p.m.
[problems with cabal install yi]
Curious, I tried this out, on a Debian etch box with GHC 6.8.3. "cabal update ; cabal install yi --global" complained about needing alex >=2.0.something and <3. Then "cabal install alex" happily installed alex version 2.2. Finally, "cabal install yi --global" worked fine. Is something amiss with cabal-install? Shouldn't it have automatically installed alex? Or does it only do that with libraries, by design? For that matter, "ghc-pkg list | grep -i alex" doesn't list anything, after I cabal-installed it. How does cabal verify the prerequisite alex version? (Or does it?) I'm enjoying cabal since I've begun using it, but it's still somewhat opaque to me. Regards, John Dorsey