On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Antoine Latter<aslat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrew > Coppin<andrewcop...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> Andrew Coppin wrote: >>> >>> Alrighty then, so how I just do Setup configure, and now Setup sdist, and >>> then I can upload the result to Ha-- oh, don't be silly. That would simply >>> be too easy. ;-) >>> >>> E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>runhaskell Setup sdist >>> Building source dist for AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... >>> Preprocessing library AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... >>> Setup: tar is required but it could not be found. >>> >>> Time to go search the web and find out what the other 50 people who >>> stumbled into this did... *sigh* >> >> Ah. Apparently it's "fixed": >> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/40 > >> Except that it isn't fixed. Yay for me... >> >> It seems that GHC provides ar but not tar. Looks like I might actually have >> to copy the entire directory tree to a Linux box just so I can run sdist... >> Nice to know this stuff is so easy. :-/ >> > > I don't know anything that's gauranteed to work, as I've never tried > packaging from a Windows box, but: > > - Is 'htar' a good enough 'tar' replacement for cabal? > - Does cabal-install also require an external tar? You could try "cabal > sdist"
If one actually reads the discussion in the ticket, it is clear that the conclusion was to have cabal-install handle it and that cabal-install uses it's own tar implementation. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
