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

[Michael Trotter]

Ok, I'll give that a shot.  Thank you both!

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Carter Schonwald
<carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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