Trying to install binary-0.4

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 09:03:28 EDT 2007


In the latest version of GHC (6.8) the base library was split up into
many smaller libraries. Among them containers. Your problem is
probably related to that. I don't have my Haskell setup nearby
unfortunately so I can't tell you exactly what the problem is.

-- Johan

On 10/10/07, Paul Johnson <paul at cogito.org.uk> wrote:
> In my copious free time I'm putting together a client-side library for
> AMQP.  This needs efficient packing of bytestrings, so I downloaded
> Dons' bytestring 0.4.  Unfortunately it won't install: I get
>
> [paj at eiffel binary-0.4]$ ./Setup.lhs configure
> Configuring binary-0.4...
> configure: Dependency base-any: using base-2.1.1
> Setup.lhs: cannot satisfy dependency containers-any
>
>
> Should this be "collections" not "containers"?  I can't find a
> "containers" package in Hackage.
>
> Paul.
>
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