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Add warning about testing Cabal on Windows
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HACKING.md

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We will refer to this as `PACKAGEDB`.
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5. Configure and build Cabal, and run all tests:
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5. Configure and build Cabal, and run all tests. (Note that many of the package tests require shared libraries, which are not provided by GHC >= 7.8 on Windows: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8228)
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./Setup configure --enable-tests --package-db=$PACKAGEDB

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