On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 14:46 -0700, Thomas Hartman wrote:
great, sudo cabal install from inside 1.17 distribution dir now seems to do the right thing.
however, after it's done installing (apparently without error) the happy version is still 1.16 and the happy executable is from 2006.
This means that I still can't install other packages that rely on happy >=1.17
sudo cabal install haskell-src-exts Resolving dependencies... 'haskell-src-exts-0.3.4' is cached. Configuring haskell-src-exts-0.3.4... cabal: happy version >=1.17 is required but the version found at /usr/bin/happy is version 1.16
At the moment by default cabal-install installs binaries to ~/.cabal/bin which isn't on the $PATH unless you deliberately change your $PATH. The reason we don't put things directly into ~/bin/ is because some people worry about cabal-install "clobbering" programs that the user already had in ~/bin/. One idea for resolving this is: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/289 We'd very much appreciate feedback on what the right thing to do is and if the above spec is ok for someone to implement it. Duncan