On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 15:00 +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > [resending due to flakiness using gmail/imap with mutt] > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:43:59 -0700, zooko wrote: > > cabal.exe: ghc-pkg describe * failed. If you are using ghc-6.9 and > > have an empty user package database then this is probably due to ghc > > bug #2201. The workaround is to register at least one package in the > > user package db.
Cabal version 1.4 does not work with ghc-6.10 (the ghc-pkg describe * issue). In addition to that problem cabal-install version 0.5.x did not work with ghc-6.10 (the infinite loop in resolving deps). $ cabal --version reports both version You need to upgrade to cabal-install-0.6.x. Of course you cannot do that using cabal-install unless you do it with ghc-6.8 or older. If you've still got an older version installed then: $ cabal install cabal-install -w ghc-6.8.2 If you now only have 6.10 installed then you need to re-bootstrap cabal-install by installing zlib, HTTP and cabal-install by the runghc Setup method. Duncan _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
