[Haskell-cafe] some problem with Cabal

[Don Stewart]

This is fixed in the new release of cabal-install  ( I think) so we're
rolling new installers.

Discussion around the installers is taking place on the haskell-platform list.

-- Don

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Qi Qi <qiqi789 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I tried the haskell platform 2011.2 source, from here
> http://code.galois.com/darcs/haskell-platform/download-website/linux.html
> .
>
> Configuration passed successfully. But when making, it gives the following
> error:
>
> scripts/build.sh
> **************************************************
> Scanning system for any installed Haskell Platform components...
>
> Found:None.
>
> New packages to install: None! All done.
>
> **************************************************
> Building
> "/usr/local/bin/ghc" "--make" "Setup" "-o" "Setup" "-package" "Cabal-1.10.1.0"
> <command line>: cannot satisfy -package Cabal-1.10.1.0:
>    Cabal-1.10.1.0-64e8f05722ea5bbdf07df2e5a3491105 is unusable due to missing or recursive dependencies:
>      directory-1.1.0.0-85d1d0f9d96dffdacf64f3cc6fba6f2f process-1.0.1.5-4cab1bf0666275ac101dd48c7565b64c
>    (use -v for more information)
>
> Error:
> Compiling the Setup script failed
> make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2
>
>
> I think this is the same problem as I got during installing some other
> packages via cabal such as hmatrix, ghc-mod, happy and etc.
>
> Does anyone have any idea about how to solve it?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> --
> Qi Qi
>
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