Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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Andrew Coppin wrote:

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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

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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"

If one actually reads the discussion in the ticket, it is clear that the conclusion was to have cabal-install handle it and that cabal-install uses it's own tar implementation.