installing ghc fails

[Brandon Allbery]

On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:37 , Inky 788 wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Brandon Allbery<allbery at kf8nh.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:42 , Inky 788 wrote:
>>>
>>> --->  Installing ghc @6.10.3_1+darwin_9_i386
>>> --->  Activating ghc @6.10.3_1+darwin_9_i386
>>> ~~~ /snip ~~~
>>> --->  Attempting to fetch haddock-2.4.1.tar.gz from
>>> http://distfiles.macports.org/haddock
>>
>> Haddock 2.4.1 isn't compatible with ghc 6.10.2 and later.
>
> Perhaps I could install hc-cabal and then use cabal (the Haskell
> package installer, AFAIK) to get whatever version of Haddock it deems
> fit.

That would get you 2.4.2, which should work with 6.10.2/6.10.3, yes.

> Is it ok to use cabal in conjunction with MacPorts when dealing with
> Haskell packages? Or will that confuse MacPorts?

My experience is it'll get somewhat confused, as it does when non- 
MacPorts Perl modules are installed. :/

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