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		<title>More cabal-install bootstrapping</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cabal-install install script (!) was very useful, but I also needed an older version of ghc (to see why Agda seems to run out of memory more often when compiled with ghc-6.10). I&#8217;ve made a version of this script to install cabal-install on ghc-6.8.2. (I&#8217;m new to wordpress so I haven&#8217;t figured out how to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polytypic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6258799&amp;post=1&amp;subd=polytypic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/bootstrapping-cabal-install/">cabal-install install script</a> (!) was very useful, but I also needed an older version of ghc (to see why Agda seems to run out of memory more often when compiled with ghc-6.10). I&#8217;ve made a version of this script to install cabal-install on ghc-6.8.2. (I&#8217;m new to wordpress so I haven&#8217;t figured out how to make the code below look as nice as in the GHC Mutterings.)</p>
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#!/bin/sh

set -e

for i in $TMPDIR /tmp c:/temp; do
  if test -d $i; then
    dir=$i
  break
fi
dir=$HOME
done

# Do all the following with a recent Cabal
cd $dir
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Cabal/1.6.0.1/Cabal-1.6.0.1.tar.gz
tar -zxf Cabal-1.6.0.1.tar.gz
cd Cabal-1.6.0.1
ghc --make Setup
./Setup configure --user
./Setup build
./Setup register --inplace --user

cd $dir
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/parsec/3.0.0/parsec-3.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxf parsec-3.0.0.tar.gz
cd parsec-3.0.0
ghc --make Setup
./Setup configure --user
./Setup build
./Setup register --inplace --user

cd $dir
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/network/2.2.0.1/network-2.2.0.1.tar.gz
tar -zxf network-2.2.0.1.tar.gz
cd network-2.2.0.1
ghc --make Setup
./Setup configure --user
./Setup build
./Setup register --inplace --user

cd $dir
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/zlib/0.5.0.0/zlib-0.5.0.0.tar.gz
tar xzf zlib-0.5.0.0.tar.gz
cd zlib-0.5.0.0
ghc --make Setup
./Setup configure --user
./Setup build
./Setup register --inplace --user

cd $dir
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/HTTP/3001.1.5/HTTP-3001.1.5.tar.gz
tar xzf HTTP-3001.1.5.tar.gz
cd HTTP-3001.1.5
ghc --make Setup
./Setup configure --user
./Setup build
./Setup register --inplace --user

cd $dir
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cabal-install/0.6.0/cabal-install-0.6.0.tar.gz
tar xzf cabal-install-0.6.0.tar.gz
cd cabal-install-0.6.0
ghc --make Setup
./Setup configure --user
./Setup build

# Don't need these libs any more...
ghc-pkg unregister --user zlib-0.5.0.0
ghc-pkg unregister --user HTTP-3001.1.5

# Now use cabal-install to install itself and its dependencies
./dist/build/cabal/cabal update
./dist/build/cabal/cabal install --user cabal-install

# Clean up...
cd $dir
rm -rf zlib-0.5.0.0*
rm -rf HTTP-3001.1.5*
rm -rf network-2.2.0*
rm -rf parsec-3.0.0*
rm -rf cabal-install-0.6.0*

echo "ALL DONE!"
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