On 13 March 2012 15:03, Hamish Mackenzie <hamish.k.macken...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On 13 Mar 2012, at 16:56, Hamish Mackenzie wrote: > >> >> On 13 Mar 2012, at 16:51, Hamish Mackenzie wrote: >> >>> On 13 Mar 2012, at 15:56, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >>>>> Even if you "cabal unpack" and then modify the .cabal file and run "cabal >>>>> install" it still fails with the same error. >>>> >>>> How did you modify it? Did you change the "cabal-version" field as well? >>> >>> I changed cabal-version and removed the test-suites. I think it must be >>> looking at all the available versions of the package (in hackage). >>> >>>>> If you can think of a better solution than asking users to install GHC >>>>> 7.0.4 or 7.4.1 to build cabal-install, then please let me know. >>>> >>>> Just build a newer version of cabal-install based upon Cabal-1.10 ? >>> >>> >>> I just tried this and it works... >>> >>> cabal install Cabal-1.10.0.2 >>> cabal install cabal-install >>> cabal install leksah-server >>> >>> Thanks Ivan >> >> Oops transposed the last two parts of the version number. It should should >> have read... >> >> cabal install Cabal-1.10.2.0 >> cabal install cabal-install >> cabal install leksah-server > > This also works... > cabal install --constrain='Cabal>=1.10.2' cabal-install > cabal install leksah-server
Wouldn't just a "cabal update && cabal install cabal-install" work to bring in the newest version of cabal-install (which requires Cabal-1.10.*) ? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
