Hi Brandon, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn't do the trick:

[0 :)] badi@olorin /private/tmp/sb
~> export PATH=/tmp/sb/.cabal-sandbox/bin:$PATH

[0 :)] badi@olorin /tmp/sb
~> cabal install happy alex
Resolving dependencies...
Notice: installing into a sandbox located at /private/tmp/sb/.cabal-sandbox
Configuring alex-3.1.0...
Configuring happy-1.19.0...
Building alex-3.1.0...
Building happy-1.19.0...
Failed to install happy-1.19.0
Last 10 lines of the build log ( /private/tmp/sb/.cabal-sandbox/logs/happy-1.19.0.log ):
Building happy-1.19.0...
Preprocessing executable 'happy' for happy-1.19.0...
setup: The program happy is required but it could not be found
Failed to install alex-3.1.0
Last 10 lines of the build log ( /private/tmp/sb/.cabal-sandbox/logs/alex-3.1.0.log ):
Building alex-3.1.0...
Preprocessing executable 'alex' for alex-3.1.0...
setup: The program happy is required but it could not be found
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
alex-3.1.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
happy-1.19.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1



On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
Badi' Abdul-Wahid wrote:

> I've run into difficulty building happy and alex using the sandbox feature
> of cabal-install 1.18.0.2.
> Installation of dependencies succeeds but both happy and alex fail with:
>
>     setup: The program happy is required but it could not be found
>
> My workaround is to use the --only-dependencies flag, install the
> dependencies, and manually install the packages.

I've run into this problem myself on Linux. My solution is to install
ghc, happy, alex, hlint and cabal-install from debian packages and
everything else using cabal install (either with or without using
sandboxes).

At a guess, both of you need to find the bin directory created *in the sandbox* and add it to $PATH while working in the sandbox. Perhaps there is some better way for cabal sandboxes to handle this automatically.

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