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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-11-28 14:03:35 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-11-28 14:03:35 -0400 |
| commit | 53e327ae4aaba5425f3649867d9f9a709d5c7e6a (patch) | |
| tree | ad11a4422648990adde3a3fe515d4477f45bae9c /doc | |
| parent | b95c0cdc4efb3cd853d5d9e8553346dfc1fcb311 (diff) | |
update cabal install instructions to get c2hs installed for gnuidn
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/Need_to_manually_install_c2hs_-_3.20121127_and_previous.mdwn | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/install/cabal.mdwn | 3 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/Need_to_manually_install_c2hs_-_3.20121127_and_previous.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Need_to_manually_install_c2hs_-_3.20121127_and_previous.mdwn index cdb4a25bf..924ce06c7 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Need_to_manually_install_c2hs_-_3.20121127_and_previous.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Need_to_manually_install_c2hs_-_3.20121127_and_previous.mdwn @@ -32,4 +32,6 @@ The fix seems as easy as Should c2hs be included as a dep got git-annex or is this a bug in gnuidn? -> If `cabal install gnuidn` fails, then this is a bug in gnuidn. --[[Joey]] +> Apparently cabal does not support automatically installing programs +> needed for the build. I've updated the cabal installation instructions +> to document the need to install c2hs. [[done]] --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/install/cabal.mdwn b/doc/install/cabal.mdwn index 180208211..c4c388e0d 100644 --- a/doc/install/cabal.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/cabal.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ As a haskell package, git-annex can be installed using cabal. For example: cabal update - cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin + cabal install c2hs git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin The above downloads the latest release and installs it into a ~/bin/ directory, which you can put in your PATH. @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ But maybe you want something newer (or older). Then [[download]] the version you want, and use cabal as follows inside its source tree: cabal update + cabal install c2hs --bindir=$HOME/bin cabal install --only-dependencies cabal configure cabal build |