On 10/21/08 18:55, Larry Evans wrote:
On 10/21/08 17:55, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:41 -0500, Larry Evans wrote:
Just that one little piece of information, that |cabal install| , by default, installs in ~/.cabal and then enables ghc to look there for packages, would have saved an awful lot of time :(
Where would you like that information to have been presented? Perhaps something the first time you used the cabal command to say what configuration it was using?
Duncan
I'd suggest putting this information after the brief description of the install option here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall [snip]
I'm pretty sure another reason why I had difficulty was that I followed the instructions here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal/How_to_install_a_Cabal_package to install cabal itself. Those instructions install globally. I just assumed that |cabal install| would do the same. Maybe if the default install destinations for both manual and |cabal install| were the same, I wouldn't have had this problem. Although I see lower down on that CabalInstall page there's instructions for a user install, I didn't bother to read that far since I was only interested in just getting the package to install ASAP. HTH. -Larry