Using cabal-install with GHC HEAD?

[Austin Seipp]

Yeah, you'll need to update your Cabal to HEAD for all the latest
support for package keys, etc. These changes happened in the past
several weeks, so you might not have noticed if you don't rebuild
especially frequently.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Stephen Paul Weber
<singpolyma at singpolyma.net> wrote:
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> I'm running cabal-install 1.20.0.3 -- when I try to install packages for my
> cross-compiler built from GHC HEAD I get:
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>> ghc-stage1: ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases
>> (dist/package.conf.inplace) use 'ghc-pkg init' to create
>>  the database with the correct format.
>
> So, do I need an even newer version of cabal-install (HEAD maybe?)?  Or does
> cabal-install just not support GHC HEAD yet at all yet?
>
> - --
> Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma
> See <http://singpolyma.net> for how I prefer to be contacted
> edition right joseph
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-- 
Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/