Hello, I have compiled the latest veersion of ghc under OpenIndiana (Solaris) and now I am trying to compile cabal. I downloaded the source code from https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html and I tried to compile. I used the bootstrap.sh script bit it failed: Configuring cabal-install-2.0.0.1... Setup: Encountered missing dependencies: HTTP >=4000.1.5 && <4000.4, async >=2.0 && <3, cryptohash-sha256 ==0.11.*, hackage-security >=0.5.2.2 && <0.6, hashable >=1.0 && <2, tar >=0.5.0.3 && <0.6 Error during cabal-install bootstrap: Configuring the cabal-install package failed. The script downloaded all these packages so I tried to see why they fail: $ cd HTTP-4000.3.7 $ ls CHANGES HTTP.cabal Network test dist LICENSE Setup.lhs $ runhaskell Setup configure Configuring HTTP-4000.3.7... Setup: Encountered missing dependencies: base >=4.3.0.0 && <4.11 Of course this package is already installed and this means that for some reason it cannot find it. It is quite possible that I am doing something stupid but I would like to know how can I proceed? Thanks in advance for your help/assistance. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece