bytestring

[Duncan Coutts]

In message <4702097B.9040504 at cse.unsw.edu.au> Manuel M T Chakravarty
<chak at cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:
> 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

This is an error from Cabal. This is bad. We get this error when Cabal does not
know its own version number and so cannot compare its version number to the one
that the bztestring package is requesting.

So something is going wrong building Cabal and this is being triggered with
bytestring.

Duncan