On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 18:28 +0100, Thorkil Naur wrote: > Hello, > > On Thursday 15 January 2009 12:25, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > Thu Jan 15 02:22:10 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts <[email protected]> > > * Rewrite the bootstrap.sh script > > Hopefully more useful and more robust. > > Yes, hopefully. A while back, I ran bootstrap.sh under Windows (with MSYS as > I > recall) and it sort of failed, I presume that the details are not > interesting. I (think I) know, now, that you are not supposed to do that, > that under Windows, you must install the dependencies individually. > > Getting to the point here: I don't see a check on the environment anywhere, I > am not sure how to do that, but you probably know. In any case, adding a > check that produces an error message if you try to run this script under > (MSYS or Cygwin) under Windows would seem valuable. Had such a check been in > place at the time a while back that I refer to, I would have been spared some > agony.
Patches to make the script work on windows or to detect it and fail gracefully would be gratefully accepted. Indeed I would like to invite people to test the new script on various platforms and send in any patches. I've only tested on Linux and Solaris so far. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
