HP 2013.2 and GHC 7.6.2

[Mark Lentczner]

If the bug is in cabal-install 0.3, that is easy - as HP picks and builds
that.
If the bug in cabal, that requires a bump in what GHC central builds and
packages.

Which is it?

- Mark


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 05:37:37PM +0200, Gabor Greif wrote:
> > On 4/17/13, Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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
>
>
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