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Subject:    Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-install sandbox with happy and alex
From:       Brandon Allbery <allbery.b () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-10-31 23:34:25
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+hs@mega-nerd.com>wrote:

> Badi' Abdul-Wahid wrote:
>
> > I've run into difficulty building happy and alex using the sandbox
> feature
> > of cabal-install 1.18.0.2.
> > Installation of dependencies succeeds but both happy and alex fail with:
> >
> >     setup: The program happy is required but it could not be found
> >
> > My workaround is to use the --only-dependencies flag, install the
> > dependencies, and manually install the packages.
>
> I've run into this problem myself on Linux. My solution is to install
> ghc, happy, alex, hlint and cabal-install from debian packages and
> everything else using cabal install (either with or without using
> sandboxes).
>

At a guess, both of you need to find the bin directory created *in the
sandbox* and add it to $PATH while working in the sandbox. Perhaps there is
some better way for cabal sandboxes to handle this automatically.

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brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mle+hs@mega-nerd.com" \
target="_blank">mle+hs@mega-nerd.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div \
class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div \
class="im">Badi&#39; Abdul-Wahid wrote:<br> <br>&gt; I&#39;ve run into difficulty \
building happy and alex using the sandbox feature<br> &gt; of cabal-install \
1.18.0.2.<br> &gt; Installation of dependencies succeeds but both happy and alex fail \
with:<br> &gt;<br>
&gt;       setup: The program happy is required but it could not be found<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; My workaround is to use the --only-dependencies flag, install the<br>
&gt; dependencies, and manually install the packages.<br><br>
</div>I&#39;ve run into this problem myself on Linux. My solution is to install<br>
ghc, happy, alex, hlint and cabal-install from debian packages and<br>
everything else using cabal install (either with or without using<br>
sandboxes).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At a guess, both of you need to find \
the bin directory created *in the sandbox* and add it to $PATH while working in the \
sandbox. Perhaps there is some better way for cabal sandboxes to handle this \
automatically.</div> </div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s \
allbery kf8nh                                              sine nomine \
associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>                                               \
<a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" \
target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div> <div>unix, openafs, kerberos, \
infrastructure, xmonad            <a href="http://sinenomine.net" \
target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div> </div></div>



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