What steps will reproduce the problem? Building of the current github HEAD fails with a strange error message regarding OSX. I'm not using OSX but Ubuntu 12.10, why is cabal trying to build these files?
dominik@Atlantis:/var/tmp$ git clone git://github.com/joeyh/git-annex.git Cloning into 'git-annex'... remote: Counting objects: 40243, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10568/10568), done. remote: Total 40243 (delta 29647), reused 40044 (delta 29449) Receiving objects: 100% (40243/40243), 9.12 MiB | 184 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (29647/29647), done. dominik@Atlantis:/var/tmp$ cd git-annex/ dominik@Atlantis:/var/tmp/git-annex$ cabal update Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org dominik@Atlantis:/var/tmp/git-annex$ cabal install --only-dependencies Resolving dependencies... All the requested packages are already installed: Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway. dominik@Atlantis:/var/tmp/git-annex$ cabal configure Resolving dependencies... [ 1 of 21] Compiling Utility.FileSystemEncoding ( Utility/FileSystemEncoding.hs, dist/setup/Utility/FileSystemEncoding.o ) [ 2 of 21] Compiling Utility.Applicative ( Utility/Applicative.hs, dist/setup/Utility/Applicative.o ) [ 3 of 21] Compiling Utility.PartialPrelude ( Utility/PartialPrelude.hs, dist/setup/Utility/PartialPrelude.o ) [ 4 of 21] Compiling Utility.UserInfo ( Utility/UserInfo.hs, dist/setup/Utility/UserInfo.o ) [ 5 of 21] Compiling Utility.Monad ( Utility/Monad.hs, dist/setup/Utility/Monad.o ) [ 6 of 21] Compiling Utility.Path ( Utility/Path.hs, dist/setup/Utility/Path.o ) [ 7 of 21] Compiling Utility.OSX ( Utility/OSX.hs, dist/setup/Utility/OSX.o ) Utility/OSX.hs:22:17: Not in scope: `myHomeDir'What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect cabal to build git-annex. What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? github HEAD on Ubuntu 12.10 Please provide any additional information below.
$ cabal --version cabal-install version 0.14.0 using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2 $ uname -a Linux Atlantis 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]