I did a complete uninstall and reinstall of GHC and that seems to have fixed it. So i probably broke things (i guess). On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 17:11 -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On 2008.05.19 06:53:22 +1000, geoffrey scribbled 1.8K characters:

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Hi, I am trying to install nanocurses, but cabal isn't creating the setup-config file in dist/

I have run (and re-run) runghc Setup.hs configure The first time it complained about mpg123 (whatever that is) so i installed the other dependencies - unix & bytestring

The mpg123 warning is leftover from hmp3; mpg123 is a media player hmp3 needs to actually play the audio files. I hadn't noticed it. Obviously it has no relevance to a curses binding, so I've edited that out and uploaded a small version bump.

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Then i tried to re-run setup configure for nano again. Configure creates the dist directory but no files. I have deleted and untarred the files and retried,but to no avail.

Any clues? Thanks.

(OS: Ubuntu hardy, GHC: 6.8.2)

Dunno. If Cabal usually works for you, but just no with nanocurses, my guess would be perhaps the mpg123 check is causing the configure script to bail out?

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