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cabal can now be used to build git-annex.

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This is substantially slower than using make, does not build or install
documentation, does not run the test suite, and is not particularly
recommended, but could be useful to some.
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* [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info) (optional; used to build the docs)
Then just [[download]] git-annex and run: `make; make install`
## Using cabal
As a haskell package, git-annex can be built using cabal. For example:
cabal configure
cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="http://peter-simons.myopenid.com/"
ip="84.189.1.247"
subject="Why isn't this package built with Cabal?"
date="2011-03-23T11:31:06Z"
content="""
It would be a lot easier to compile this package, if it had a Cabal file to describe the build; especially the build-time dependencies. Why isn't Cabal used?
"""]]

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="http://joey.kitenet.net/"
nickname="joey"
subject="comment 2"
date="2011-03-23T15:18:29Z"
content="""
Because I haven't learned Cabal yet.
But also because I've had bad experiences with both a) tying a particular program to a particular language's pet build system and then having to add ugliness when I later need to do something in the build that has nothing to do with that language and b) as a user, needing to deal with the pet build systems of languages when I just need to make some small change to the build process that is trivial in a Makefile.
With that said, I do have a configure program written in Haskell, so at least it doesn't use autotools. :)
Update: I did try using cabal, but git-annex includes 3 programs, and they
all link to a lot of git-annex modules, and cabal wanted to build nearly
every module 3 times, which was too slow for me and I could not find a way
around.
"""]]