2009/7/2 Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk>

Do you have any more details on that? What problem are you hitting
exactly? A log file would help us see what's going on. I did test
ghc-6.8 when releasing Cabal-1.6 and cabal-install-0.6.2.

Duncan

Which log files would be helpful? From looking at "ps ax" when it was running it seems that the linking (ld) part of the install is the bit that takes a long time. About 8hrs on this machine, whether I used
  1. ghc --make Setup  
  2. ./Setup configure --user  
  3. ./Setup build
or subsequently
  1. ./dist/build/cabal/cabal update  
  2. ./dist/build/cabal/cabal install cabal-install

Just let me know what you need, and I'll be happy to try a fresh install to recreate the problem if needed - once I've backed up this one!


Iain