Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Yi (and wider Cabal stuff)

2007-06-19 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 18 jun 2007, at 18.31, Jaap Weel wrote: If you want to install into a nonstandard directory, do runhaskell Setup.hs configure --prefix /bla/di/bla Are you sure this works? I think it is important that there be no whitespace between flag and parameter: runhaskell Setup.hs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Yi (and wider Cabal stuff)

2007-06-18 Thread Jaap Weel
On Sunday 17 June 2007 08:26:45 Michael T. Richter wrote: I'm trying to build Yi (from the darcs repository) to take a look at it. The README that comes with it says it's a standard Cabal project so do what you normally do (paraphrased slightly). GNU autotools comes with a standard boilerplate

[Haskell-cafe] Building Yi (and wider Cabal stuff)

2007-06-17 Thread Michael T. Richter
I'm trying to build Yi (from the darcs repository) to take a look at it. The README that comes with it says it's a standard Cabal project so do what you normally do (paraphrased slightly). The problem is that I'm not a cabal user just yet and have no idea where to go from here. Just throwing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Yi (and wider Cabal stuff)

2007-06-17 Thread Alistair Bayley
I'm trying to build Yi (from the darcs repository) to take a look at it. The README that comes with it says it's a standard Cabal project so do what you normally do (paraphrased slightly). The problem is that I'm not a cabal user just yet and have no idea where to go from here. The

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Yi (and wider Cabal stuff)

2007-06-17 Thread Malte Milatz
Michael T. Richter: I'm trying to build Yi (from the darcs repository) to take a look at it. I tried that, too, and it seems to me that if you use a different GHC version than the developers have, you're very likely to be struck. (Now how will I know what version they use?) The README that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Yi (and wider Cabal stuff)

2007-06-17 Thread Michael T. Richter
On Sun, 2007-17-06 at 08:18 +0100, Alistair Bayley wrote: I'm trying to build Yi (from the darcs repository) to take a look at it. The README that comes with it says it's a standard Cabal project so do what you normally do (paraphrased slightly). The problem is that I'm not a cabal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Yi (and wider Cabal stuff)

2007-06-17 Thread Michael T. Richter
OK, got the builds to work. I did, in fact, have to go two layers down to build yi-lib and install it before building yi proper. (I think this needs to be updated in the docs or repaired, whichever is appropriate.) So, I have a Yi build. I type Yi and it... dies. It complains about not having