10 Jan
2010
10 Jan
'10
4:44 p.m.
Probably no-one has ever built happy on a machine without perl so this has never been noticed. I think it's more polite to fail at the
More likely, it's because until fairly recently ghc required perl (for the Evil Mangler).
I have noticed and reported this in the past. On Windows GHC installs Perl, but doesn't put it on the %PATH%, which causes building happy to fail on a default Windows install of GHC. Thanks, Neil