Re: [Haskell-cafe] errors while installing yesod 0.8

New information, may be helpful. I manually installed hamlet 0.8 with cabal-dev, and it seemed to install. Here is the message Registering hamlet-0.8.0... Installing library in /home/mlitchard/hamlet-0.8.0/cabal-dev//lib/hamlet-0.8.0/ghc-6.12.3 Registering hamlet-0.8.0... Then I tried to manually install yesod. Here's what I got. mlitchard@apotheosis:~$ cd yesod-0.8.0/ mlitchard@apotheosis:~/yesod-0.8.0$ cabal-dev install Resolving dependencies... cabal: cannot configure yesod-0.8.0. It requires hamlet ==0.8.* There is no available version of hamlet that satisfies ==0.8.* I noticed it did not install in the $HOME/.cabal/ path. How do make sure it does that? I think if I can get it to install in the right place this will work out. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Rogan Creswick wrote:

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Michael Litchard wrote:

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mlitchard@apotheosis:~/monad-control$ cabal install Resolving dependencies... Configuring monad-control-0.2.0.1... cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: monad-control-0.2.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 11

note: I've been trying to use the cab command to manage my packages, I get the same error as above when I use cab instead of cabal.I mention this just in case there is some unforseen problem having to do with cab/cabal interaction.

Has anyone experienced this problem, or know what I can do to get more useful error messages that might reveal the cause of the breakage?

You might learn more by issuing the configure / build steps manually (I think `cabal configure` will produce an error).  Upping the verbosity will also help:

# get pages and pages of details: $ cabal install --verbose=3

I would first suggest trying cabal-dev, though (cab can delegate to cabal-dev now too, but I haven't played with it yet).

$ cabal-dev install yesod-0.8

will either work or fail in a way that we can more easily reproduce.

--Rogan