Re: 7.8.1 cabal install of vector package (dependent on primitive package) fails

On Wednesday 09 April 2014, 23:42:26, Carter Schonwald wrote:

i bet you have cabal --version reply with 1.16

1) cabal update 2) cabal install cabal-install 3) rm ~/.cabal/config # old pre 1.18 config should go! 4) cabal update # also probably add ~/.cabal/bin to path

There should be a step to edit the config file here, one may want to change a number of default settings, such as documentation library-profiling shared library-for-ghci split-objs

5) cabal install vector