[GHC] #9202: Strange Closure Type

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#9202: Strange Closure Type
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       Reporter:  athanclark         |             Owner:
           Type:  bug                |            Status:  new
       Priority:  normal             |         Milestone:
      Component:  Compiler           |           Version:  7.8.2
       Keywords:  strange-closure-   |  Operating System:  Linux
  type                               |   Type of failure:  Compile-time
   Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)     |  crash
     Difficulty:  Project (more      |         Test Case:
  than a week)                       |          Blocking:
     Blocked By:                     |
Related Tickets:                     |
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 Hello masters of the universe, I am here with a plea. I have recently
 installed GHC 7.8.2 and cabal-install 1.20.0.0 (following
 [https://gist.github.com/wting/8498731 this] guide), and have ran into a
 fun road block on the way to installing yesod-platform. I have had a few
 incidents of the 'strange closure type ###' error on this machine before,
 on the 7.6.x version available in Ubuntu's repository. I believe this
 failure is occuring when installing text, because that was the error that
 I got when installing attoparsec alone, but without a sandbox. I know
 (barely) better now, so when I went to install yesod-platform, I did a
 {{{cabal unpack $1 && cd $1* && cabal sandbox init && cabal install
 --only-dependencies && cabal build}}}, but I failed at preventing the
 error, still :(

 I've attached the output as output.txt, and I've also included my `lspci`
 and `lshw` outputs just for giggles :) I hope someone can direct me in the
 right direction, I would appreciate it tremendously. Thank you!

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