Re: Building cabal with cabal fails?

Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:

On 8/17/06, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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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.

ghc --make -cpp Setup.lhs works for me. Also adding -i will cause it to use whatever Cabal you have installed instead of the sources in the tree. When you say it stopped working at some point, what are you referring to? Cheers, Simon