7.8.1 cabal install of vector package (dependent on primitive package) fails

[Daniel Fischer]

On Wednesday 09 April 2014, 23:42:26, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> i bet you have cabal --version reply with  1.16
> 
> 1) cabal update
> 2) cabal install cabal-install
> 3) rm ~/.cabal/config # old pre 1.18 config should go!
> 4) cabal update # also probably add ~/.cabal/bin to path

There should be a step to edit the config file here, one may want to change a 
number of default settings, such as

documentation
library-profiling
shared
library-for-ghci
split-objs

> 5)  cabal install vector