[Haskell-beginners] 2014 haskell cabal update hangs on mac

[Alexandre Lucchesi]

I'm not sure if the following steps will solve your problems nor if they're
all required, but maybe you should try:

- Remove "~/.ghc" and "~/.cabal" directories.
- Check if "~/.cabal/bin" is in your path and add it otherwise.
- Run "cabal update".

I prefer using Homebrew to install the Haskell Platform and current version
is still 2013 (7.6.3 ghc), so I can't give further advices.


2014-08-26 1:51 GMT-03:00 Madhu Babu <madhub.bits at gmail.com>:

> I initially installed haskell platform ( 2013 version; 7.6.3 ghc ) on my
> mac. Everything was working great. Just now saw the haskell platform
> website again and found new version was released ( Haskell Platform
> 2014.2.0.0 for Mac OS X, 64bit ). I installed it, and un-installed the
> older version using uninstall-hs.
>
> Now when i type "cabal" or "cabal update" on my terminal, it hangs.
> Actually when i look into Activity Monitor, i can see that it is invoking
> some "sh script & possibly some find command" infinitely. I initially guess
> may be it is building some indexes. but it has been running for an hr or so.
>
> I have Xcode 5, gcc and other command line tools installed properly
>
> Please advice. I cannot install any other package using cabal.
>
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