On Jul 27, 2009, at 14:23 , Conal Elliott wrote:
Note that the the first module to be compiled is Main. On my linux machine, Main is the *last* of several modules to be compiled.
It's compiling the setup program which is presumably used by cabal to do the work a configure script normally does. "cabal install --verbose=3 lhs2tex" might show what setup is upset about.