Well, I am using

cabal-install version 0.6.0
using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library

The suggested trick (adding dist/build/autogen to Hs-Source-Dirs) solved the problem.
Here goes the important part of my .cabal file:

Data-files: GHood.jar Build-type: Simple Cabal-Version: >=1.2 Flag splitBase Description: Choose the new smaller, split-up base package. Library Hs-Source-Dirs: src, dist/build/autogen Build-Depends: base, haskell98 if flag(splitBase) Build-Depends: base >= 3, array >= 0.1, pretty >= 1.0 else Build-Depends: base < 3 exposed-modules: Debug.Observe other-modules: Paths_GHood extensions: ScopedTypeVariables Rank2Types TypeSynonymInstances



On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 14:25 +0000, Hugo Pacheco wrote:
> I don't know if I got the ideia.
> I have always built before and always got the error:
>
>
> $ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
> $ runhaskell Setup.lhs build
> $ runhaskell Setup.lhs haddock
> ..
> Setup.lhs: can't find source for module Paths_module

Ok, that is supposed to work. We'll need more details, eg the Cabal lib
version and the .cabal file you're using.

There was a bug in this area in Cabal-1.4.x:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/187

Duncan





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