Hi Michael,

It seems the consensus is that using homebrew to install GHC is a bad idea, it causes problems and is not actively maintained. Instead I'd recommend using either the Haskell Platform [1] or GHC for OS X [2], both include more recent versions of GHC and cabal-install.

Cheers,

Adam

[1] https://www.haskell.org/platform/

[2] http://ghcformacosx.github.io/

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Michael Trotter <spicydonuts@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm having trouble getting cabal-install to work. I used homebrew (brew install cabal-install), which successfully installed the ghc dependency and then attempted to install cabal-install. The problem looks like it's either with my ghc install or maybe an issue with cabal-install and osx 10.10. This is my first haskell experience though, so I'm not really sure how to proceed.

Here's the console output:

setup: Error: Could not find module: Distribution.Compat.CreatePipe with any

suffix: ["dyn_hi"] in the search path: ["dist/build"]

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:

Cabal-1.20.0.2 failed during the final install step. The exception was:

ExitFailure 1

cabal-install-1.20.0.3 depends on Cabal-1.20.0.2 which failed to install.

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