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

Thomas Hartman tphyahoo at gmail.com
Thu May 29 22:20:26 EDT 2008


mistaske, that last comment should have gone on another thread.

2008/5/29 Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>:
> By the way, it just finally finished.
>
> I still think it took way too long.
>
> thomas.
>
> 2008/5/29 Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>:
>> I see. I had done
>>
>> sudo cabal install HAppS-Server
>>
>> but this just installed with root ownership in my home directory.
>>
>> I'm now trying with
>>
>> sudo cabal install --global HAppS-Server
>>
>>
>> 2008/5/29 Daniel Patterson <daniel at dbpatterson.com>:
>>> I think you need to install HAppS-Data etc globally... I'm not sure why
>>> locally installed (ie, only your user) packages wouldn't be picked up by runghc
>>> Setup.hs'ing, but if they are install system wide it should definitely work.
>>>
>>> I think it is cabal --global install foo
>>>
>>> On Thu, 29 May 2008 18:11:04 -0700
>>> "Thomas Hartman" <tphyahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
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