On 23 November 2010 08:26, Martijn van Steenbergen
Hello cafe,
When I want to locally install my own package through "cabal install" it tries to reinstall dependencies convertible-1.0.9.1, HDBC-2.2.6.1 and HDBC-mysql-0.6.3 even though they are already installed (and work fine). Why does it do this?
1) Does "ghc-pkg check" complain about them? If so, it will rebuild them. 2) Do you mean it rebuilds the same version or a different/older version? 3) Did you build those packages with any compile-time flags, constraints, etc.? If so, I believe cabal-install defaults to wanting to rebuild them with the default settings. I believe that if you want to stop cabal-install from rebuilding non-broken packages, that unpacking what you want to install and then running "cabal install" within that directory (as opposed to doing "cabal install foo") is meant to work. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com