[darcs-users] darcs 2.3 beta 1: configure fails with GHC 6.8.3 on FreeBSD

Petr Rockai me at mornfall.net
Tue Jul 7 19:16:50 UTC 2009


Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com> writes:
> I tried installing from this tarball with GHC 6.8.3 with the following
> result:
>
>  $ runghc Setup configure
>  
>  Setup.lhs:31:7:
>      Could not find module `Distribution.Text':
>        Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
>
> ###
>
> This is on a FreeBSD system.
You need to upgrade your Cabal to version 1.6. If you have
cabal-install, saying "cabal install Cabal" should fix your
problem. Otherwise, you probably need to download a cabal 1.6 tarball
and install manually.

(We may need to add some instructions to README to that effect...)

Yours,
   Petr.


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