[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install fails (osx 10.10)​

[Adam Bergmark]

Hi Michael,

It seems the consensus is that using homebrew to install GHC is a bad idea,
it causes problems and is not actively maintained. Instead I'd recommend
using either the Haskell Platform [1] or GHC for OS X [2], both include
more recent versions of GHC and cabal-install.

Cheers,
Adam

[1] https://www.haskell.org/platform/
[2] http://ghcformacosx.github.io/


On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Michael Trotter <spicydonuts at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  I'm having trouble getting cabal-install to work.  I used homebrew (brew
> install cabal-install), which successfully installed the ghc dependency and
> then attempted to install cabal-install.  The problem looks like it's
> either with my ghc install or maybe an issue with cabal-install and osx
> 10.10.  This is my first haskell experience though, so I'm not really sure
> how to proceed.
>
> Here's the console output:
>
> setup: Error: Could not find module: Distribution.Compat.CreatePipe with
> any
> suffix: ["dyn_hi"] in the search path: ["dist/build"]
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> Cabal-1.20.0.2 failed during the final install step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
> cabal-install-1.20.0.3 depends on Cabal-1.20.0.2 which failed to install.
>
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