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diff --git a/doc/install/cabal.mdwn b/doc/install/cabal.mdwn index 6c5c0d4c6..3270dd0f9 100644 --- a/doc/install/cabal.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/cabal.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,14 @@ -As a haskell package, git-annex can be installed using cabal. +As a haskell package, git-annex can be installed using cabal. + +This involves building a lot of haskell packages from source, and so it has +a lot of moving parts, and it's not uncommon for it to be broken from time +to time. + +If you are not comfortable tracking down and dealing with library build +problems, installing git-annex with cabal is probably not the right choice +for you! + +## prerequisites Start by installing the [Haskell Platform][]. In Debian, this is as simple as: @@ -40,3 +50,9 @@ you want, and use cabal as follows inside its source tree: cabal configure cabal build cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin + +## EKG + +When building with cabal, you can optionally enable the +[[EKG monitoring interface|ekg]]. This is great for debugging resource +usage problems. |