OK, I think you mean Cabal's register. I tried that but I get an error: $ runhaskell Setup.hs register --gen-pkg-conf=pkg.conf Package contains no library to register: vintage-basic-1.0...
That's true, there is no library exported by Cabal, just an executable. So what do I do next? Many of your steps depend on this pkg.conf. Thanks, Lyle On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Lyle Kopnicky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >
