- status changed from new to closed
- resolution set to fixed
Thanks. It turns out this has been fixed in the dev version already:
Sun Mar 15 12:54:07 GMT 2009 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> * Clarify the instructions in the README and bootstrap.sh Addresses the complaint in ticket #523.
See #523 for the improved wording of the README about doing update before the config file gets created.
Also, the PREFIX/HOME mistake was fixed in the same patch:
hunk ./bootstrap.sh 135
- ./Setup configure --user "--prefix=${HOME}/.cabal" \
+ ./Setup configure --user "--prefix=${PREFIX}" \
However I do not understand the problem about no config file existing. When I remove the config file and the cached package index and try to install something I get:
$ cabal install graphmod Config file /home/duncan/.cabal/config not found. Writing default configuration to /home/duncan/.cabal/config Warning: The package list for 'hackage.haskell.org' does not exist. Run 'cabal update' to download it. cabal: There is no package named graphmod
It sounds like you've got a partial config file rather than none at all.
We cannot create the config file at install time because global installs cannot create per-user config files. The best we can do is to improve things so that the config file is always created on the first run and explained appropriately.
