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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am trying to install cabal-install 0.8.2 with GHC 6.12.1 on a CentOS 5.2 system and am running up against a ‘ExitFailure 127’ error.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can download the package and run ‘cabal install’ inside the package directory and all will be fine, but if I let cabal download and install the package cabal runs into problems as soon as it tries to configure.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For example, if I try ‘cabal install permutation --verbose=3’ it finishes like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>link: done<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>*** Deleting temp files:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Deleting: /tmp/ghc1324_0/ghc1324_0.lpp<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>*** Deleting temp dirs:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Deleting: /tmp/ghc1324_0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>/tmp/permutation-0.4.132758/permutation-0.4.1/dist/setup/setup configure<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>--verbose=3 --ghc --prefix=/home/chris/.cabal --user --constraint=base<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>==3.0.3.2 --constraint=ghc-prim ==0.2.0.0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>permutation-0.4.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>ExitFailure 127<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have tried the same exercise with GHC 6.10.4 with cabal-install 0.8.0 the same results.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have downloaded the Cabal sources to try and add some instrumentation to find out what is going wrong I have yet to succeed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anybody have any suggestions? Is there an easier way of getting cabal-install working on CentOS?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any help much appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chris<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>