[Haskell-cafe] Cabal warning

Peter Higley phigley at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 02:36:30 EDT 2008


I had the same problem on a Mac system, change "GHC" to "ghc" and things
will work.

I didn't even think that it was an actual bug!  Ticket #379 reports the
problem.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 00:05 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
> > L.S.,
> >
> > I keep getting the following warning for each "cabal install" command:
> >     Warning: Error parsing config file C:\Documents and
> >     Settings\[User]\Application Data\cabal\config: On line 1: GHC
> >     Warning: Using default configuration.
> >
> > The first line of this file is:
> > compiler: GHC
> >
> > What can I do about this?
>
> Can you save a copy of the file and attach it to a new ticket at:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/
>
> I'll look into why it's not parsing the old format correctly.
>
> Once you've done that, you can delete the file and let it re-create a
> default one.
>
> Duncan
>
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