Ok, figured it out, based on your link, Jonathan, I thought of just running: make clean ./Setup configure ./Setup build ./Setup install WHICH of course imports Distribution.Simple, whereas calling "make blah" on the Makefile will not do the import of Distribution.Simple Anyway, THANKS for the link ... it DID help :) Cheers, Roderick Ford
This gave me a buildable make of the code (make just calls Setup for each step) but in the "make install" I get: localhost:/home/roderick/Source/hs/src/distribution # make install Installing library in /usr/local/lib/Holumbus-Distribution-0.0.2.0/ghc-6.10.4 Installing executable(s) in /usr/local/bin Registering Holumbus-Distribution-0.0.2.0... Setup.hs: internal error: unexpected package db stack make: *** [install] Error 1
So, my question is "What is the 'unexpected package db stack' caused by?" Does this give me any hints about the actual problem?
Is cabal using a custom GHC package database? You might find this illuminating:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/731
-- Jonathan Daugherty