On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:48 PM, egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote:

However, the README says:

The machine doing the build needs to have a working Haskell setup: Usually,
GHC (7.4 or later), Cabal (1.16 or later), and haddock and HsColour must be on
the $PATH.

This is what I am trying to do: I have a working installation of the
old GHC plus the old Platform, and I am using it to build the new
Platform. Otherwise, where am I supposed to get Cabal? AFAIK, Cabal
comes with the Platform. Am I missing anything?

You need to install a base ghc from haskell.org/ghc, minus the Platform. HsColour from the old installation can be used as is, since it is a program and not (used as) a library here. Cabal refers to the Cabal library, which is part of ghc, *not* cabal-install which is the "cabal" command and which is part of the Platform. (The library predates cabal-install by the better part of a decade, hence the unfortunate naming.)

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