Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes: >> - Went down a dead-end by misreading the build-it-yourself instructions at >> <http://www.darcs.net/manual/node8.html>. Looked at Setup, figured out that >> it's not a shell script, but rather Haskell. > > Anything we can do to improve this?
It looks pretty straightforward to me. I don't know why the OP thought Setup would be a shell script, or why it would matter that it wasn't. >> - Tried "ghci Setup.lhs configure" and so on, ran into issues with >> missing packages. Note that in the node8 link above, we use ghc --make instead of runghc because (I'm told) the latter isn't available on some architectures. > Right, this is why we really encourage people to use cabal-install Which is exactly what node8 says to use. > Great. One thing I do is to just download the Haskell Platform > via http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ Is it worth mentioning haskell-platform in the node8 page? _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
