Cabal fails to install package with executables

Hi! I am making a Cabal package containing executables. Most options to the Setup.hs script work except installation. The error seemed so obvious that I thought it my own. But trying with one of Cabal's testcases I discovered the same error. Take the wash2hs example found in the tests directory. Taking a quick look at (wash2hs.cabal) http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/libraries/Cabal/ tests/wash2hs/wash2hs.cabal?rev=1.5;content-type=text%2Fplain We can see that - The sources live in the hs directory - The main hs file is WASHMain.hs and - The executable is wash2hs I run "configure" and "build" with no problems, but when calling "Setup.hs" with "install -v" I get: -------- $ runghc Setup.lhs install -v Installing: /opt/lib/Wash-2hs-1.4.34 & /opt/bin Wash-2hs-1.4.34... copy dist/build/wash2hs to /opt/bin/wash2hs *** Exception: dist/build/wash2hs: copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) --------- Although the built binary is placed in dist/build/hs, Cabal insists on reading the binary from dist/build for installation. I am running the 6.4.1 GHC generic binary for x86 linux systems. I downloaded the test case from the 1.0 distribution of Cabal, I checked that it is the same as in CVS. I welcome all hints. Cheers, Alexey

Installing: /opt/lib/Wash-2hs-1.4.34 & /opt/bin Wash-2hs-1.4.34... copy dist/build/wash2hs to /opt/bin/wash2hs *** Exception: dist/build/wash2hs: copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
This is a known bug with cabal 1.0 (which is what GHC currently comes with). There's a patch that was previously posted on this list, which you might want to forward to the GHC maintainer for your platform. Another solution is to use a newer version of cabal, though they are all "unstable prerelase" versions: http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html peace, isaac
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Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev
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Isaac Jones