(alpha) "stick shift" cabal install for GHC 6.12.1

[Antoine Latter]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Dave Bayer <bayer at cpw.math.columbia.edu> wrote:
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> Background: I never got "cabal install" to work on OS X 10.5 with GHC 6.10.4, basically because zlib wouldn't work. Odd, because a perfectly good version of gunzip already exists on most platforms, and the code doesn't fall back to this version if needed.
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Do you have any more information about this failure? It seems like it
would be easier to get zlib to work than to replicate cabal-install.

My painful story of getting zlib to work on 10.6 is chronicled here:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2009-November/018068.html

But my problem should only have been an issue on OS X 10.6, not any
version lower.

Antoine