Cabal-install bug

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 00:41:43 CET 2012


On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 18:19, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> wrote:

>    $> cabal install --dry-run --jhc --verbose base
>    Reading available packages...
>    Resolving dependencies...
>    cabal: internal error: impossible
>
>    $> cabal install --dry-run --ghc --verbose base
>    Reading available packages...
>    Resolving dependencies...
>    cabal: Distribution/Client/**Dependency/TopDown.hs:171:37-**73:
>        Non-exhaustive patterns in lambda
>

base is supposed to be installable?!  I always understood that error to
mean "base has to be built with the compiler, cabal-install is incapable of
doing this for you".

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