On 8/17/06, Neil Mitchell
Using GHC 6.4.2, in prepration for some cabal hacking, I decided to download Cabal from darcs and install it.
darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal --partial cd Cabal runhaskell Setup configure
And I get the error:
./Distribution/Simple.hs:61:1: lexical error
Should this work? If not, what should I be doing.
Arguably, it should. Unfortunately it doesn't. I think this is what I do with ghc (in Windows): ghc -hide-all-packages -package base -package Cabal Setup.lhs -o setup But of course that requires one cabal already installed and working. If you have ghc 6.4.2, that should be no problem. I think it used to be possible just to pass -cpp and compile setup using the Distribution- sources in tree, but that stopped working at some point. Best regards, --Esa