Re: Failure to install time package

Hi

Does anyone have a server where I could put an alternate 6.10.2 binary distribution for Windows? One that includes the time package and cabal.exe.

Please do! I've always said that GHC should come with cabal.exe, and I still stand by that. The HP thing is a nice idea, and I support it, but shoving cabal.exe quietly in with GHC would make my life much much easier. You can use Google for hosting downloads: http://code.google.com/p/ndmitchell/downloads/list - creating a new project is easy. Plus their bug tracker is great. Thanks Neil

 -- Lennart

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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Hi,

Time is an important library, it got unbundled from GHC, and it seems Windows users can't install the time package!

C:\Neil\hoogle>cabal install time --global Resolving dependencies... [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( C:\Users\Neil\AppData\Local\Temp\time-1.1. 2.32884\time-1.1.2.3\Setup.hs, C:\Users\Neil\AppData\Local\Temp\time-1.1.2.32884 \time-1.1.2.3\dist\setup\Main.o ) Linking C:\Users\Neil\AppData\Local\Temp\time-1.1.2.32884\time-1.1.2.3\dist\setu p\setup.exe ... Configuring time-1.1.2.3... setup.exe: sh: runGenProcess: does not exist (No such file or directory) cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: time-1.1.2.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1

C:\Neil\hoogle>ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.2

My guess is that it would work if I installed mingw, but that it hasn't been tested without. I consider this problem fatally serious - we may have managed to make GHC 6.10.2 unuseable for many Windows users...

Thanks

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