On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 19:29 -0800, Philippos Apolinarius wrote:
D:\ghc\ghcapi>cabal install mkcabal
Note that as of cabal-install-0.8, the "mkcabal" functionality is integrated as "cabal init" (thanks to Brent Yorgey). This does not depend on less portable packages like pcre and readline (meaning it will work on Windows).
Resolving dependencies... Downloading pcre-light-0.3.1... Configuring pcre-light-0.3.1...
There's no reason pcre-light needs a configure script. It should be removed. (It's also not used consistently, the Setup.hs is for a different build-type than the one specified in the .cabal file).
Downloading readline-1.0.1.0... Configuring readline-1.0.1.0... cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: mkcabal-0.4.2 depends on readline-1.0.1.0 which failed to install. pcre-light-0.3.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1 readline-1.0.1.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1
As of Cabal-1.8 the error is reported as: cabal: The package has a './configure' script. This requires a Unix compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin. Duncan