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

[Mark Stosberg]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:16:05 -0700
Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > Anyway, "cabal install" fails for me too:
> > > >
> > > > $ cabal install
> > > > Warning: No remote package servers have been specified. Usually you
> > would have
> > >
> > > Oh, hmm.  What happens if you do cabal update, followed by cabal
> > > install?
> >
> > It's the same core issue:
> >
> >  $ cabal update
> >  Warning: No remote package servers have been specified. Usually you would
> > have
> >  one specified in the config file.
> >
> > I think it could be considered a bug in "cabal-install" that it didn't set
> > me
> > up with some servers by default. Maybe it had to do with my non-root
> > install.
> 
> I've never installed cabal as root nor have I seen this error message.  So,
> I suspect the two are unrelated.

To add a bit more: not ".cabal/config" was created for me by default. I
added just this to it, as the output suggested:

symlink-bindir: /usr/local/bin

The "cabal-install" I used was "0.6.2".

    Mark