Re: HP 2013.2 and GHC 7.6.2

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 05:37:37PM +0200, Gabor Greif wrote:

On 4/17/13, Iavor Diatchki wrote:

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Hello,

cabal-install 1.16.0 and 1.16.0.1 have some serious bugs that one encounters rather quickly. For example, at work I wasted some time until I figured out that cabal was generating a 'Paths_' module that does not compile. Because of this, you can't even use it to install a newer version of itself, where the problem is fixed: you have to manually bootstrap the new version with the script!

I came up with this.

http://heisenbug.blogspot.fr/2013/02/old-cabal-subhell.html

Pretty much what you have experienced.

This doesn't appear to affect the Cabal that GHC 7.6.2 ships with. I get ... catchIO :: IO a -> (Exception.IOException -> IO a) -> IO a catchIO = Exception.catch ... getBinDir = catchIO (getEnv "HTTP_bindir") (\_ -> return bindir) in Paths_HTTP. Thanks Ian