#599: bootstrap of cabal-install fails on ghc 6.12rc1 ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.4 Severity: major | Resolution: invalid Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: 6.12.2 | Platform: Linux ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * status: reopened => closed * resolution: => invalid Comment: Hold on, you're using an old version of cabal-install that does not work with ghc-6.12. Looking at the start of the build log: {{{ Cabal-1.6.0.2 will be downloaded and installed. HTTP-4000.0.4 will be downloaded and installed. zlib-0.5.0.0 will be downloaded and installed. }}} Cabal-1.6 is for ghc-6.10, it does not work with 6.12. If you're using ghc-6.12 you need cabal-install-0.8 which uses the Cabal library 1.8 (which comes with ghc-6.12). It would have been better if it had warned that this was a later major version of ghc, but it's a bit late now. We could do this for future releases however. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/599#comment:7 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects