Cabal bugs on Windows

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi,

Following advice on the haskell-cafe@ mailing list I found a solution.

It turns out if cabal-install is compiled using GHC 6.12.1 then
everything works.

Thanks, Neil

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get this error on multiple machines running Windows, with both GHC
> 6.10.4 and 6.12.1:
>
> $ ghc --version
> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.1
>
> $ cabal --version
> cabal-install version 0.8.0
> using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library
>
> $ cabal update
> Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
> cabal: Codec.Compression.Zlib: premature end of compressed stream
>
> This is the same error as reported on
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/636. I'm also not the
> only Windows user I know who has got this. Is Cabal broken in some
> way? It's fairly serious and annoying that GHC 6.12.1 can't be used
> with Cabal.
>
> Thanks, Neil
>