[Haskell-cafe] Building recent Cabal/cabal-install

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 16:22:58 CEST 2013


Hi,

Cabal 1.18 is still in the release candidate stage so it has in fact not
been released yet. We could either bump the dependency on base to <4.8
before the 1.8 release or we could make a Cabal-1.8.0.1 release together
with the GHC release that bumps the dependency.

-- Johan


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
<fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk>wrote:

> Greetings café,
>
> There are some problems in Haddock to do with Template Haskell that I
> believe are being caused by Cabal. These were apparently addressed in
> 1.18 which came out recently. ‘Great!’, I thought.
>
> My problem is that I'm unsure how to use 1.18. I'm using GHC HEAD (well,
> 3 days old now) which is meant to come with Cabal 1.18 (the library) and
> in fact it seems to ship with it. Running ‘cabal --version’ however:
>
> > cabal-install version 1.17.0
> > using version 1.17.0 of the Cabal library
>
> I'm unsure how to get it to use 1.18. I tried to build cabal-install
> from git but that just complains about dependencies not being possible
> to resolve: it depends on HTTP which depends on base <4.7 but 4.7 comes
> with GHC HEAD!
>
> I am baffled as to how I should go about using 1.18 and would love to
> hear from some people who have this up and running.
> --
> Mateusz K.
>
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