On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Coppin<[email protected]> 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" Antoine _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
