On 14/08/14 21:35, Brandon Allbery wrote:
You need to install a base ghc from haskell.org/ghc http://haskell.org/ghc, minus the Platform. HsColour from the old installation can be used as is, since it is a program and not (used as) a library here. Cabal refers to the Cabal library, which is part of ghc, *not* cabal-install which is the "cabal" command and which is part of the Platform. (The library predates cabal-install by the better part of a decade, hence the unfortunate naming.)
But `platform.sh' needs the `cabal' command: $ ./platform.sh \
--prefix=/opt/haskell-platform/haskell-platform-2014.2.0.0 \ ../ghc-7.8.3/ghc-7.8.3-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 ./platform.sh: 24: cabal: not found
*** Building hptool *** ./platform.sh: 29: cabal: not found Thanks.