[darcs-users] 2.2.0pre1 tarballs ready for testing (cabal feedback)

[Trent W. Buck]

Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com> writes:

> I assume that "cabal" just depend on the ghc package. [...]  I would
> recommend the "runghc" variation, because it avoids installing cabal
> just for the purpose of installing darcs.
>
>>     $ cabal configure [...]

This requires the Haskell packages "cabal" and "cabal-install"; the
latter provides a binary cabal(1) which needs to be in $PATH.

>>     $ runghc ./Setup.lhs configure [...]

This just requires the Haskell package "cabal".

I do not know if the cabal version included in GHC 6.6 (cabal 1.2) is
new enough; you might need to install cabal 1.6 separately.  This is
icky for Debian packaging; I'm just hoping GHC 6.10 is available on
Squeeze before we drop autotools ^_^;