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

[Christian Maeder]

Oleg Lobachev schrieb:
> 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 

This version of cabal cannot handle ghc-6.12.1 packages.
You need (to hand-install) cabal-install-0.8.0 for ghc-6.12.1 first.
(There is no haskell-platform for ghc-6.12.1, yet)

Cheers Christian

> $ 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