[Haskell-cafe] Re: Problems building and using ghc-6.9

Daniel Fischer wrote:

Then I tried to build zlib-0.4.0.1: $ runghc ./Setup.hs configure --user --prefix=$HOME Configuring zlib-0.4.0.1... Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing: base >=2.0&&<2.2 ??? okay, there was something with flag bytestring-in-base, removed that, so that build-depends was base < 2.0 || >= 2.2, bytestring >= 0.9, then $ runghc ./Setup.hs configure --user --prefix=$HOME Configuring zlib-0.4.0.1... Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing: base <2.0||>=2.2, bytestring >=0.9

This turns out to be something that broke when we changed the command-line syntax for ghc-pkg in the HEAD. I've just posted a patch for Cabal on cvs-ghc@haskell.org. Cheers, Simon