[Haskell-cafe] Cabal broken on Mac OS X?

[Oleg Lobachev]

Hello all,

I suspect that it's me and not the cabal, but everything looks fine and still fails. Would someone mind to tell me, what am I doing wrong?

$ cabal -V
cabal-install version 0.6.2
using version 1.6.0.3 of the Cabal library 
$ ghc -V
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.1
$ which ghc
/usr/bin/ghc
$ which cabal
/usr/local/bin/cabal
$ cabal install cabal-install
cabal: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump'

That's the problem! As it is Mac OS X 10.6.2, here is some information on the architecture and the executables used:

$ uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov  3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386
$ file /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/612/usr/lib/ghc-6.12.1/ghc
/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/612/usr/lib/ghc-6.12.1/ghc: Mach-O executable i386
$ file `which cabal`
/usr/local/bin/cabal: Mach-O executable i386
$ file `which ls`
/bin/ls: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/bin/ls (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/bin/ls (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386
$ ghc --make hello.hs 
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( hello.hs, hello.o )
Linking hello ...
$ ./hello 
Hello world!
$ file ./hello
./hello: Mach-O executable i386

The output of ghc-pkg dump is here: http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~lobachev/tmp/ghc-pkg.txt

I have installed the Haskell Platform and then the new GHC via official pkg files.

Greetings,
Oleg