Hi
Your Cabal file should be in Unix format, i.e. without \r\n's in it, just \n's.
I'm surprised that our resident Windows hacker would advocate this, instead of a more tolerant approach to line ending conventions :-)
Line endings should be one character long, they always should have been. Windows internally opens all files with \r\n and then maps them to \n when you read them! How silly! I've been bitten with binary vs text time and time again, CVS, writeFile, readFile, everything just breaks based on weird assumptions. I write all my code with \n, and using TextPad, I can open any text file with any line ending and have it appear correctly. I have also emailed the Cabal people and requested that they don't choke on \r's, but in general, \r\n should be killed. Thanks Neil