build fails: cabal-bin.exe: cabal: Don't know what to do!

[Simon Marlow]

Claus Reinke wrote:
>>> cabal-bin.exe: cabal: Don't know what to do!
>>
>> Sorry about that - the Windows build works for me now.
> 
> Thanks, also for picking up on all those older items!-)
> 
> I'm pulling right now, but it seems I will have to do a little darcs 
> massaging to make it go through - this time it is left-over 
> _darcs/patches/pending again, leading to spurious conflicts on pull..
> 
> Btw, that powerpc-apple-darwin vs powerpc_apple_darwin
> in the testsuite was caused by a deeper issue, in that the
> testsuite naming of platforms does not match the ghc panic
> message (and thus probably the configure naming of platforms?).
> 
> It would be good if the naming was consistent, and perhaps
> the testsuite could check that platform references refer to
> platforms known to configure?

You might want to try darcs 2.0.2 on Windows.  Nowadays I try darcs 2 first 
on Windows, then if that fails I fall back to darcs 1 (but I don't think 
I've encountered a case where darcs 2.0.2 failed and darcs 1 worked yet).

Cheers,
	Simon