Hi Magnus, Thanks for the help. I'm having some trouble with the steps. Especially step 5, because it involves a command called register, which I don't have. What is that?
- Lyle On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Magnus Therning <[email protected]>wrote: > Lyle Kopnicky wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm trying to build a debian package from cabal for the first time. I'm > > following the instructions at > > > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Creating_Debian_packages_from_Cabal_package > . > > I got the following error: > > > > $ debian/rules update-generated-files > > update-debian-haskell-files > > update-haskell-control > > Failed to find provides of ghc6-doc > > exit: ExitFailure 1 > > make: *** [update-generated-files] Error 1 > > > > Any ideas how I can approach fixing that? > > I'd recommend starting over, using hlibrary.mk instead. Here's a > shameless plug for my own blog post: > http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458 > > Note that step 14 needs to be modified, something I found out myself > just a few days ago > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2009/02/msg00079.html). > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) > magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org > http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe > > Haskell is an even 'redder' pill than Lisp or Scheme. > -- PaulPotts > >
