cabal-install-1.18 on GHC-6.12

[Johan Tibell]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov <
the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Henning Thielemann
> <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying  to compile cabal-install-1.18.0.2 on GHC-6.12.1. It aborts
> > with:
> >
> > ...
> > [12 of 73] Compiling Distribution.Client.Compat.Semaphore (
> > Distribution/Client/Compat/Semaphore.hs,
> > dist/build/cabal/cabal-tmp/Distribution/Client/Compat/Semaphore.o )
> >
> > Distribution/Client/Compat/Semaphore.hs:12:26:
> >     Module `Control.Exception' does not export `mask_'
> >
> >
> > That is, you must either narrow the dependency on 'base' or avoid
> 'mask_'.
>
>
> Looks like this commit is the problem:
>
> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/877ef34712255d7c99b36eea4b9c3adfaada6b52
>
> Johan, was it you who cherry-picked it from master? Wasn't 1.18
> supposed to still support 6.12?
>

This is my fault. I don't know if it's worth another Cabal release to fix
it though. 6.12 is more than 3 years old now.
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