cabal-install

mysterious cabal-install problems

With a clean install of the "Haskell Platform". (OS X Snow-Leopard & Platform 2010.1.0.1), doing this causes simple sequence causes very weird cabal install behaviour: $ cabal install time $ cabal install random $ ghc-pkg list random /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/612/usr/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d random-1.0.0.2 /Us...

Installing a Haskell package from Hackage through Cabal gets stuck at dependency resolution

Here is the output from verbose mode. I know this used to work for me before but now this happens. I've tried it with other packages and got the same result. $ sudo cabal install test-framework-quickcheck2 -v /usr/local/bin/ghc --numeric-version looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in /usr/local/bin found package tool in /u...

wxHaskell fails because it depends on wx_macu-2.8

I install wxWidgets with macports then ran the command: sudo cabal install wx which output included: /bin/sh: wxdirect: command not found /bin/sh: wxdirect: command not found /bin/sh: wxdirect: command not found /bin/sh: wxdirect: command not found Configuring wxcore-0.12.1.6... setup: Missing dependency on a foreign library: * Missing ...

-package Cabal-1.8.0.6 breaks pango installation on Mac

When installing Haskell pango on mac (sudo cabal install pango), the first problem is that it tries to install packages I've already installed. I've install haskell98 (successfully), but pango tries to install it again, and when the compilation is complete it gives this error: Registering haskell98-1.0.1.1... Installing library in /User...