[Haskell] cabal-install and ghc compatibility

[Albert Y. C. Lai]

On 12-03-24 07:27 PM, briand at aracnet.com wrote:
> I've got ghc 7.2.2 installed.
>
> trying to install cabal-install-0.10.2 results in:

There are two options.

Use GHC 7.0 to build cabal-install. Now you can use it in the context of 
most other GHC versions. It's just a self-contained executable.

If you must use GHC 7.2 to build cabal-install,
https://gist.github.com/1169332
and the cabal-install section is not just for Mac OS X.