Greetings, I was doing a clean, from scratch install of ghc-7.4.1 and was trying to get cabal-install to work, and since I am new I tried to do all the bootstrap.sh stuff myself. After failing and starting over I saw this package (cabal-install-ghc74) and gave it a shot. Unfortunately with a fresh install there are three things wrong. 1. It was not checking for the right .cabal file. 2. network-2.3.0.5 has the restriction of base <4.5, ghc-7.4.1 ships with base 4.5 so bootstrap.sh fails. Using the latest version (2.3.0.13 at time of writing) solved that issue. 3. HTTP-4000.1.2 has the same restriction as the previous (base <4.5). I just used HTTP-4000.2.3 instead. This builds cabal correctly on my x86_64 Debian stable box. I don't know how I am supposed to do this, but I just attached a diff if that helps. Thanks === BEGIN DIFF === 50c50 < NETWORK_VER="2.3.0.5"; NETWORK_VER_REGEXP="2\." # == 2.* ---

NETWORK_VER="2.3.0.13"; NETWORK_VER_REGEXP="2\." # == 2.* 54c54 < HTTP_VER="4000.1.2"; HTTP_VER_REGEXP="4000\.[01]\." # == 4000.0.* || 4000.1.*

HTTP_VER="4000.2.3"; HTTP_VER_REGEXP="4000\.2\." # == 4000.2.* 69c69 < grep "cabal-install-ghc72" ./cabal-install-ghc72.cabal > /dev/null 2>&1 \

grep "cabal-install-ghc74" ./cabal-install-ghc74.cabal > /dev/null 2>&1 \

=== END DIFF === PS: There are a lot of emacs temp files (~) in this tarball as well. I don't know what the policy is on removing them or if anyone cares.