Ticket #5353 (closed bug: fixed)

Opened 22 months ago

Last modified 21 months ago

Cabal bug building haddock, alex, happy, etc

Reported by: igloo Owned by: duncan
Priority: highest Milestone: 7.2.1
Component: libraries (other) Version: 7.1
Keywords: Cc:
Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty:
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Description

There's a Cabal bug that affects building tools which are used to build themselves, such as haddock, alex and happy. The symptom is that cabal configure locates the program in dist/blah/blah rather than on the $PATH.

Change History

Changed 21 months ago by igloo

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

Fixed by 

commit fbba304d57b5909e38dabfdd674ef48510c2be56
Author: Duncan Coutts <duncan@community.haskell.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 8 16:50:45 2011 +0000

    Fix for intra-package build-tools dependencies

in Cabal HEAD, and Duncan says he'll make a new stable branch for the GHC 7.4 branch.

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