Woooops.  I misread the earlier email. 

Did you wipe your .ghc dir and cabal/config files after updating to cabal-install 1.18? It could be a stale cabal config that has shared set to false or something?


On Friday, March 7, 2014, José Pedro Magalhães <jpm@cs.uu.nl> wrote:



On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:
Ghc 7.8 supports only cabal 1.18

"I have later updated cabal-install (to version 1.18.0.2 using version 1.18.1.2 of the Cabal library), but that didn't change this problem."

Or do you mean I need something even more recent than this?


Pedro
 
Could you try using the boot strap script for getting new cabal install on your system?  
If not, Austin probably has a cabal-install binary lying around for his windows testing



On Friday, March 7, 2014, José Pedro Magalhães <jpm@cs.uu.nl> wrote:
Should I file a bug report for this? If it's indeed a GHC bug, it's a blocker.
Can anyone else confirm it?...


Thanks,
Pedro

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:17 AM, José Pedro Magalhães <jpm@cs.uu.nl> wrote:
Hello,

This GHC crashes whenever I try installing any package. (I guess this might be due to cabal-install, though.)

Details:
  OS: Win7 64bit
  cabal-install version 0.14.0
  using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library
  cabal install --nats -v3 gives this output, and brings up a standard windows application crash window before the
"returned ExitFailure (-1073741819)" line with the following information:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: ghc.exe
  Application Version: 0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp: 5312f1e1
  Fault Module Name: ghc.exe
  Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp: 5312f1e1
  Exception Code: c0000005
  Exception Offset: 01adb323
  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID: 2057
  Additional Information 1: 1548
  Additional Information 2: 1548a4345bd8ec1f0510cd3884fa5889
  Additional Information 3: daab
  Additional Information 4: daabc1a5d9d41fd73825c2e9d33e1385

I have later updated cabal-install (to version 1.18.0.2 using version 1.18.1.2 of the Cabal library), but that
didn't change this problem. The same happened with RC1, btw.

Thanks,
Pedro



On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> wrote:
We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.8.1:

    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/
    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc2/html/

This includes the source tarball and binary distributions for Windows,
Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64, and more. There
are now two binary builds for Linux users: one for glibc 2.12 and GMP
4, primarily intended for RHEL users, and one built for glibc 2.13 and
GMP 5 - intended for Debian and more recent machines.

In addition, there is also an iOS cross compiler build (both in the
native ARM configuration and i386 simulator configurations), separate
Solaris 10 and So