I'm trying to build Yi (from the darcs repository) to take a look at it.  The README that comes with it says "it's a standard Cabal project so do what you normally do" (paraphrased slightly).  The problem is that I'm not a cabal user just yet and have no idea where to go from here.  Just throwing caution to the wind and typing "make" built a setup program which was then executed and failed complaining about not having yi-lib0.3 (which I kind of thought the project should be building for me) and such.  Editing the config.mk (which has some options left almost entirely undocumented) got me a step farther (specifically giving it a prefix that actually existed), but then had it choking out that it couldn't find the vty library -- even when I specifically told it to build the gtk version.

Is there some painfully obvious thing I'm missing in trying to build this?  And is it something that's applicable in the broader Cabal world or is it just this project?  Compiling GHC (which is a lot bigger and more complex, I'd have guessed) was painless in comparison, so I'm kind of in the dark here.

-- Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com) If there's one thing that computers do well, it's to make the same mistake uncountable times at inhuman speed. (Peter Coffee)