[Hackage] #820: cabal-install clobbers itself on multi-arch platforms

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#820: cabal-install clobbers itself on multi-arch platforms
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  Reporter:  bos                 |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:         
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.8.0.6
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown             |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                      |  
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Comment(by duncan):

 Ah yes, so in fact we need the beginnings of cross-compilation support. We
 need to be able to specify or discover the target architecture.

 I see that as of ghc-7, ghc --info now reports its target platform:
 {{{
  ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
  ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
  ,("Target platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
 }}}

 Can you check what it uses on OSX 32 and 64 bit?

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