On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrew
Coppin
Andrew Coppin wrote:
Alrighty then, so how I just do Setup configure, and now Setup sdist, and then I can upload the result to Ha-- oh, don't be silly. That would simply be too easy. ;-)
E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>runhaskell Setup sdist Building source dist for AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... Preprocessing library AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... Setup: tar is required but it could not be found.
Time to go search the web and find out what the other 50 people who stumbled into this did... *sigh*
Ah. Apparently it's "fixed":
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/40
Except that it isn't fixed. Yay for me...
It seems that GHC provides ar but not tar. Looks like I might actually have to copy the entire directory tree to a Linux box just so I can run sdist... Nice to know this stuff is so easy. :-/
I don't know anything that's gauranteed to work, as I've never tried packaging from a Windows box, but: - Is 'htar' a good enough 'tar' replacement for cabal? - Does cabal-install also require an external tar? You could try "cabal sdist" Antoine