On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Austin Seipp <mad....@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a heads up: on Ubuntu 12.04 with GHC 7.4.1 out of apt (no > haskell-platform,) using the bootstrap.sh script fails, because the > constraints for CABAL_VER_REGEXP are too lax: > > $ sh ./bootstrap.sh > Checking installed packages for ghc-7.4.1... > Cabal is already installed and the version is ok. > transformers is already installed and the version is ok. > mtl is already installed and the version is ok. > deepseq is already installed and the version is ok. > text is already installed and the version is ok. > parsec is already installed and the version is ok. > network is already installed and the version is ok. > time is already installed and the version is ok. > HTTP is already installed and the version is ok. > zlib is already installed and the version is ok. > random is already installed and the version is ok. > cleaning... > Linking Setup ... > Configuring cabal-install-1.16.0... > Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: > Cabal >=1.16.0 && <1.18 > > Error during cabal-install bootstrap: > Configuring the cabal-install package failed > $ ghc-pkg list Cabal > /var/lib/ghc/package.conf.d > Cabal-1.14.0 > /home/a/.ghc/x86_64-linux-7.4.1/package.conf.d > $ > > In bootstrap.sh, we see: > > CABAL_VER="1.16.0"; CABAL_VER_REGEXP="1\.(13\.3|1[4-7]\.)" # >= > 1.13.3 && < 1.18 > > The constraint should be updated so that it requires 1.16. It can be > fixed by saying: > > CABAL_VER="1.16.0"; CABAL_VER_REGEXP="1\.(1[6-7]\.)" # >= 1.16 && < 1.18 > > Otherwise, you can't get any new cabal install without the platform. > Or you have to get 1.14, then install 1.16 via 'cabal install'. > > I'll file a bug later today.
Thanks. Please make the fix against the cabal-1.16 branch on GitHub and send me a pull request. -- Johan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
