On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Gwern Branwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yi fails on Alex because Cabal doesn't track executables, nor executables > needed for installation. You want 'cabal install alex yi'; Yay, that finally worked :) Had to add ~/.cabal/bin to my path first, which wasn't hard to figure out but should probably also be in a faq somewhere. > I believe the FAQ covers this. Nope. I was following http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi when I got stuck, and the page makes no mention of how to resolve the alex dependency > As for cabal install yi-gtk, unless things have changed since I last looked, > the answer is Don't Do That. yi-gtk and yi-vty are solely for yi 0.3 and > below - it's obsolete, in other words. Yi depends directly on vty (which > cabal install will handle) and GTK2HS, which unfortunately is not on Hackage > and so you or your distro has to handle that. Okay, thanks :) martin _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
