[Haskell-cafe] test driving cabal install... cabal install and normal install (runghc Setup) don't mix... two package.conf files...

[Thomas Hartman]

After a little drama with zlib, I managed to get cabal-install installed.

I then attempted to do

cabal install HAppS-Server

since this is a module with a lot of dependencies, and in rapid
development flux, so perenially painful for me to install.

The result is that I managed to install everything up to HAppS-State,
which I think is the last dependency, but then seemed to hang
indefinitely in the middle of installing HAppS-Server at the end.

OK, I thought, then perhaps I can do normal runghc Setup.hs after
downloading and unzipping the tar from

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HAppS-Server-0.9.2.1

However, this resulted in error

thartman at thartman-laptop:~/haskellInstalls/smallInstalls/HAppS-Server-0.9.2.1>runghc
Setup.hs configure
...
Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
HAppS-Data >=0.9.2...

Strange, because I had just installed that module via cabal-install,
and I could load it in ghci with :m +HappS.Data.

I then ran ghc-pkg and got this strange result that my packages were
broken into two different files. Is this by design?

ghc-pkg list
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf:
    Cabal-1.2.3.0, Cabal-1.3.11, Cabal-1.5.2, DeepArrow-0.2,
....
/home/thartman/.ghc/i386-linux-6.8.2/package.conf:
    HAppS-Data-0.9.2.1, HAppS-IxSet-0.9.2.1, HAppS-State-0.9.2.1,


I am curious if anybody else is able to install HAppS-Server using
cabal install, and whether they can shed any light on the other isuses
I raised.

Thomas.