I pasted your report into the bug tracker: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1478
I don't know if you're on GitHub or not so I could link the report to your user. On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Rogan Creswick <cresw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I ran into another oddity due to old build artifacts today -- it was easy to > fix, but very confusing; cabal repl was exiting with "unrecognised command: > repl". > > tl/dr; if you see this, delete the old 'dist' dir and re-run 'cabal > configure'. > > Here's a snippit of my shell session to explain in more detail: > > $ cabal sandbox init > ... > $ cabal --version > cabal-install version 1.18.0 > using version 1.18.0 of the Cabal library > $ cabal configure > Resolving dependencies... > Configuring pgftransform-0.0.0.1... > $ cabal repl > unrecognised command: repl (try --help) > $ cabal --help > ... > Commands: > ... > build Compile all targets or specific targets. > repl Open an interpreter session for the given target. > sandbox Create/modify/delete a sandbox. > ... > > Note that cabal --version and cabal --help indicated that repl /was/ a valid > command. > > The issue appears to be that an old dist directory was still hanging around, > and (I suspect) the compiled setup.hs build program (which would have been > built with an old Cabal) was causing the actual error. Deleting the dist > dir and re-running cabal configure set everything right. > > --Rogan > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Yuri de Wit <yde...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It is easy enough to recreate the link manually or as easy to run cabal >> install again, but that is not the point here. The point is that it will >> bite the next dozen of unsuspecting users since, at first, they have no idea >> of what is going on. >> >> In any case, apologies for sending this in this thread as it doesn't seem >> the right forum to discuss it. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Paolo Giarrusso <p.giarru...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:41:33 PM UTC+2, Yuri de Wit wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks for all the hard work! >>>> >>>> If you see this in OSX (#1009) while installing cabal 1.18: >>>> >>>> Warning: could not create a symlink in /Users/lemao/Library/Haskell/bin >>>> for >>>> cabal because the file exists there already but is not managed by cabal. >>>> You >>>> can create a symlink for this executable manually if you wish. The >>>> executable >>>> file has been installed at >>>> /Users/user/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.6.3/lib/cabal-install-1.18.0/bin/cabal >>>> >>>> You will need to manually remove the pre-existing 1.16 links in >>>> ~/Library/Haskell/bin before installing again. >>> >>> >>> Instead of installing again, you can even just recreate the symlink as >>> mentioned by the message (if you know how to do that). >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> haskell-c...@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > haskell-c...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
