bytestring

[Don Stewart]

chak:
> Simon Peyton-Jones wrote,
> >Unpulling up to and including this patch seems to make bytestring build 
> >again
> [..]
> >Fri Sep 28 23:33:56 GMT Daylight Time 2007  Duncan Coutts 
> ><duncan at haskell.org>
> >
> >  * Use new style syntax in .cabal file and use configurations for 
> >  ghc-6.4.2
> >
> >  We previously had a comment saying what to change to get it to build with
> >
> >  older ghc versions. Now we can do it automatically with configurations.
> 
> I have had the same experience.
> 
> Duncan, the error message I get is
> 
> Configuring bytestring-0.9...
> Setup: Cabal was not bootstrapped correctly
> rm -f bytestring/GNUmakefile
> cp Makefile.local bytestring
> if ifBuildable/ifBuildable bytestring; then \
>    cd bytestring && setup/Setup makefile -f GNUmakefile; \
> fi
> Setup: error reading dist/setup-config; run "setup configure" command?
> 
> Manuel
> 
So is this a Cabal issue, rather than an a bytestring-specific issue
then?

-- Don