[Haskell-cafe] Trying to install Cabal

2009-02-20 Thread David
Hi! I've just installed ghc (v 6.10.1) for Windows, and it seems to be installed correctly, and now I'm trying to install Cabal (v1.6.0.2), but I'm getting the following error message (along with a lot of warnings about a deprecated something-or-other, which I assume I can ignore): C:\Temprunghc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install Cabal

2009-02-20 Thread David
Probably not, but I'd like to understand what I'm doing wrong. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I've also got Hugs for Windows installed. Could there be some sort of conflict? I'm just following the steps in Appendix A of Real World Haskell, which doesn't mention the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install Cabal

2009-02-20 Thread Andrea Vezzosi
the solution here is to compile Setup.hs with ghc first, i.e. ghc --make Setup.hs and then use the produced Setup.exe, this is also recommended un linux since runghc will have to load and interpret many modules if not. However if you've already built cabal-install against 1.6.0.1 you can simply

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install Cabal

2009-02-20 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:19 -0500, David wrote: Hi! I've just installed ghc (v 6.10.1) for Windows, and it seems to be installed correctly, and now I'm trying to install Cabal (v1.6.0.2), but I'm getting the following error message (along with a lot of warnings about a deprecated

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install cabal

2008-07-14 Thread Tillmann Rendel
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: I have downloaded cabal and am trying to install it but have gotten the following error message: C:\cabal\cabal-install-0.5.1runghc Setup configure Cabal itself is a special case; you need the same version of Cabal already installed to install it via Cabal...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install cabal

2008-07-14 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Tillmann Rendel wrote: Apropos cabal-install: can i make it build documentation during the installation process and store them in some central location? I also wondered about that. Maybe a '--haddock' flag for 'cabal install' ?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install cabal

2008-07-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 18:53 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Jul 10, at 14:00, Eric wrote: I have downloaded cabal and am trying to install it but have gotten the following error message: C:\cabal\cabal-install-0.5.1runghc Setup configure Note that Eric is talking

[Haskell-cafe] Trying to install cabal

2008-07-10 Thread Eric
Dear all, I have downloaded cabal and am trying to install it but have gotten the following error message: C:\cabal\cabal-install-0.5.1runghc Setup configure Configuring cabal-install-0.5.1... Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing Cabal =1.41.5, HTTP =30003002, zlib =0.4

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install cabal

2008-07-10 Thread Don Stewart
eeoam: Dear all, I have downloaded cabal and am trying to install it but have gotten the following error message: C:\cabal\cabal-install-0.5.1runghc Setup configure Configuring cabal-install-0.5.1... Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing Cabal =1.41.5, HTTP

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install cabal

2008-07-10 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hello Eric. Em Qui, 2008-07-10 às 19:00 +0100, Eric escreveu: C:\cabal\cabal-install-0.5.1runghc Setup configure Configuring cabal-install-0.5.1... Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing Cabal =1.41.5, HTTP =30003002, zlib =0.4 I'm not sure from this message what

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to install cabal

2008-07-10 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Jul 10, at 14:00, Eric wrote: I have downloaded cabal and am trying to install it but have gotten the following error message: C:\cabal\cabal-install-0.5.1runghc Setup configure Cabal itself is a special case; you need the same version of Cabal already installed to install it