<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 18:19, wren ng thornton <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wren@freegeek.org">wren@freegeek.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
   $&gt; cabal install --dry-run --jhc --verbose base<br>
    Reading available packages...<br>
    Resolving dependencies...<br>
    cabal: internal error: impossible<br>
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    $&gt; cabal install --dry-run --ghc --verbose base<br>
    Reading available packages...<br>
    Resolving dependencies...<br>
    cabal: Distribution/Client/<u></u>Dependency/TopDown.hs:171:37-<u></u>73:<br>
        Non-exhaustive patterns in lambda<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>base is supposed to be installable?!  I always understood that error to mean &quot;base has to be built with the compiler, cabal-install is incapable of doing this for you&quot;.</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery                                      <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms<br>
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