[Haskell-cafe] 2014 haskell cabal update hangs on mac

[Madhu Babu]

You are right. It worked for me now. Earlier, i deleted only
/Library/Hashell, ~/.cabal & one more similar dir. Looks like there are lot
of directories ( & more importantly broken symlinks which were still
pointing to old Library ).

Once i deleted all of them, it worked.

Thanks again for the advice.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:23 PM, S D Swierstra <doaitse.swierstra at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I suffered from the same phenomenon. I carefully removed everything which
> smelled of ghc, including .ghc in my home directory and many spurious
> aliases. That cured the problem,
>
>  Doaitse
>
>
> On 26 Aug 2014, at 6:51 , Madhu Babu <madhub.bits at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I initially installed haskell platform ( 2013 version; 7.6.3 ghc ) on my
> mac. Everything was working great. Just now saw the haskell platform
> website again and found new version was released ( Haskell Platform
> 2014.2.0.0 for Mac OS X, 64bit ). I installed it, and un-installed the
> older version using uninstall-hs.
>
> Now when i type "cabal" or "cabal update" on my terminal, it hangs.
> Actually when i look into Activity Monitor, i can see that it is invoking
> some "sh script & possibly some find command" infinitely. I initially guess
> may be it is building some indexes. but it has been running for an hr or so.
>
> I have Xcode 5, gcc and other command line tools installed properly
>
> Please advice. I cannot install any other package using cabal.
>
>
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