On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:46 +0100, Ben Franksen wrote:
Don Stewart wrote:
ben.franksen:
cabal: dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
This one is due to having an out of date cabal. Upgrade to darcs cabal, then rebuild cabal-install, and things should go fine.
Ok. So the package is broken in that it doesn't work with the advertised version of Cabal as stated on hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/cabal-install-0.4... See the line
base (>=2.0&&<2.2), Cabal (>=1.2), filepath (>=1.0), HTTP (>=3000.0&&<3001.1), network, zlib (>=0.3)
Anyway, I'll follow your advice & install latest cabal from darcs repo. (* looks for repo URL in Cabal home page; under "Download", nothing, hmmm; ah it's under "Source Code", right. Wait for darcs to finish getting...here we go *)
ben@sarun: .../software/haskell > darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal Copying patch 115 of 115... done! Applying patch 114 of 114... done. Finished getting. ben@sarun: .../software/haskell > cd cabal ben@sarun: .../haskell/cabal > runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
Distribution/Simple/NHC.hs:77:1: lexical error at character 'i'
Ups.
Cheers Ben (feels like a real beta-tester now ;-)
Well, Cabal cannot automatically compile itself with itself. Use: $ make