On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 12:32 -0800, Conal Elliott wrote:
Thanks. Looks simple enough, and I compiled up a version that works this way. I don't know how to get ghc to use it. When I "./setup install", I get Cabal-1.1.7 registered, but my ghc-6.6 wants to use Cabal-1.1.6 instead.
Try cleaning and rebuilding your prog, you've probably got existing .hi files that refer to the older package version. That or perhaps you are using other packages that were built against Cabal-1.1.6, eg the ghc api package. You can force ghc to use a specific version using "ghc -package Cabal-1.1.7" and see what it complains about.
Worse, I unregistered 1.1.6, and now I can't use cabal at all with ghc. Do you know how get 1.1.6 back short of re-installing ghc?
You can re-register the old version, though I'm not sure where you can get the right package.conf file from. If you built from source you can grab the file from the build tree. If you installed from a distro package then re-installing that should be easy.
BTW, I noticed in the function "haddock" in Distribution.Simple , the line "++ programArgs confHaddock", which leads me to suspect that there's an approach getting extra Haddock arguments passed by tweaking my Setup.lhs. Is that so?
Ask on the cabal-devel list, I'm not sure without delving into the code. Duncan