##14:04 Friday 31 October 2014 JST##

Travis helped me (into and) out of Cabal Hell on my mac. heehee

cd ~
rm -rf .ghc
rm -rf .cabal
rm -rf ~/Library/Haskell
cabal update
cabal install cabal-install

Building cabal took a few minutes, even on my SSD-filled MBP. bah.

mkdir journal
cd journal
cabal sandbox init

Now need to create journal.cabal like this:

name:           journal
version:        0.1.0.0
build-type:     Simple
cabal-version:  >=1.10

executable site
    main-is:            site.hs
    build-depends:      base == 4.*
                      , hakyll == 4.5.*
                      , filepath >= 1.3
                      , tagsoup >= 0.13
    ghc-options:        -Wall -O2 -threaded
    default-language:   Haskell2010

cabal install --only-dependencies

Installing on the dependencies took about 20 minutes. (?)

After cabal install --only-dependencies finishes, we build the journal (which uses Hakyll)

cabal install

And now I can remove site, site.o etc from .gitignore, and just add dist/. .gitignore now looks like this:

_cache/
_darcs/
_site/
dist/
.cabal-sandbox/

Now I can compile my site from anywheres. :-) Thanks, Travis!!!