make install fails on master on macOS Sierra

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Mitsutoshi Aoe wrote:

> I'm trying to build recent master (579bb766) on macOS Sierra but make install fails as follows:
> 
> "/usr/local/ghc/ghc-HEAD/lib/ghc-8.3.20170426/bin/ghc-pkg" --force --global-package-db "/usr/local/ghc/ghc-HEAD/lib/ghc-8.3.20170426/package.conf.d" update rts/dist/package.conf.install
> Reading package info from "rts/dist/package.conf.install" ... done.
> : Warning: Unrecognized field exposed-modules on line 708
> : Warning: Unrecognized field key on line 703
> : Warning: Unrecognized field id on line 702
> : Warning: Unrecognized field version on line 701
> : Warning: Unrecognized field name on line 700
> : invalid package identifier:
> : missing id field
> make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 1
> make: *** [install] Error 2

I *think* that may be an issue with using an older version of cabal.
It should be 1.24.*.

Erik
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