[Hackage] #777: cabal install {hledger, others} ExitFailure 11

[Hackage]

#777: cabal install {hledger, others}  ExitFailure 11
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  Reporter:  philips             |        Owner:                   
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new              
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:  cabal-install-0.8
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.8.0.2          
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:  ExitFailure      
Difficulty:  unknown             |   Ghcversion:                   
  Platform:  Linux               |  
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Comment(by simonmic):

 I first saw this a few weeks back, since then it has increased and I see
 it on several machines (mac and linux) and with various packages (hledger
 and pandoc among them). Once a package starts giving this error, it also
 means that "cabal configure" is terminating with non-zero exit status and
 no apparent error message in -v3 output. Eg:

 simon at joyful:/repos$ cabal unpack pandoc
 Unpacking to pandoc-1.6/
 simon at joyful:/repos$ cd pandoc-1.6/
 simon at joyful:/repos/pandoc-1.6$ cabal configure && echo OK
 Resolving dependencies...
 [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, dist/setup/Main.o )
 Linking ./dist/setup/setup ...
 Configuring pandoc-1.6...
 simon at joyful:/repos/pandoc-1.6$

 cabal configure -v3 and ghc-pkg list output are attached. I'm currently
 using ghc 6.12.3, have seen it also with 6.12.1.

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