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

[Carter Schonwald]

I second Adam's remark. don't use brew for ghc/haskell, it aint maintained
properly. (and no one seems inclined to maintain it)

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:

> 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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