The newer cabal-install has different and fewer deps.
We will add those in for a release including cabal-install.

It just makes us look bad! :-)

It was using constant strings like "lib/ghc-6.4.1/blah"
which obviously doesn't work very well with ghc-6.5.20060903
Also let the test to run be specified on the command line to
make it easier to re-run individual tests.

Since we're not shipping cabal-install or cabal-setup just yet.

No idea why they were there, it builds fine without.
Having these deps causes circular dependencies for package-based
distros like Gentoo since mtl and network are not in the core set
of libs and they both need cabal to build.

Originally Neil Mitchell's patch, minor conflict fixed by me.

before:

  bindir  = $prefix\$pkgid
  datadir = $prefix

now:

  bindir  = $prefix\Haskell\bin
  datadir = $prefix\Haskell

datasubdir is still $pkgid, so data files for an exectuable will be
installed in $prefix\Haskell\$pkgid.

the idea is that all executables are installed in the same directory
by default, so setting PATH is easier.  Also, data files belonging to
Haskell programs are grouped together under $prefix\Haskell.

Each package component must now contain at least one letter, a weaker 
requirement than always beginning with a letter.

Avoids ambiguities with package identifiers like "foo-1" (the 1 is the
version number). 

This brings it in sync with the package.conf.

Make -o use the filename as GHC will, i.e. with .exe on the end for Windows. This fixes a GHC 6.4.2 bug with relinking every time.

We'll see if anyone complains.

When using GHC's --split-objs we end up with lots of files to link.
This can mean overflowing the maximum length of the command line
when invoking ar or ld. On windows the maximum length is 32k. On
other systems it's not a great deal more. GHC currently deals with
this problem by using xargs. This patch does more or less the same.

This needs testing.

Distribution.Compat.Map taken from Haddock.

This shouldn't make any difference to current GHC's, but will be
required by the new GHC package code.