Classic pilot error. I had an old cabal.exe on the search path. -Tom
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Tom Hawkins <tomahawk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm having trouble installing Haskell Platform on Windows. After the > install, I run "cabal update", which appears to work: 00-index.tar.gz > is deposited in C:/Documents and Settings/<user>/Application > Data/cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org. However, when I try to > "cabal install" anything, I get: > > cabal.exe: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump' > > "ghc-pkg dump --global" appears to run just fine. > > Ideas? Suggestions? > > -Tom > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe