[Haskell-cafe] Cabal-Install Fails To Compile

[Don Stewart]

Could you try the cabal-1.4 package just put up on hackage.haskell.org?

aditya_siram:
> 
> Hi all,
> I downloaded cabal-install and the cabal-1.4 branch from darcs. The following error occurs when building:
> > runhaskell Setup.hs build
> 
> Building cabal-install-0.4.9...
> [19 of 27] Compiling Hackage.SrcDist  ( Hackage/SrcDist.hs, dist/build/cabal/cabal-tmp/Hackage/SrcDist.o )
> 
> Hackage/SrcDist.hs:58:59:
>     Couldn't match expected type `Char'
>            against inferred type `Distribution.Simple.PreProcess.PPSuffixHandler'
>       Expected type: FilePath
>       Inferred type: [Distribution.Simple.PreProcess.PPSuffixHandler]
>     In the fifth argument of `prepareSnapshotTree', namely
>         `knownSuffixHandlers'
>     In the second argument of `(>>=)', namely
>         `prepareSnapshotTree
>            verbosity pkg mb_lbi tmpDir knownSuffixHandlers'
> 
> 
> According to ghc-pkg compiling and installing the cabal-1.4 branch added cabal-1.3.12. Is this the problem? 
> 
> -Deech 
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