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by jarrett 4436 days ago
I'd love to, but Haskell Platform ships with an old version of Cabal that doesn't have sandboxes. The new version of Cabal itself doesn't compile on the Mac. (In keeping with the theme of "nothing compiles.")

Edit: At least, I can't get the new version of Cabal/Cabal Install working on my Mac.
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tel 4436 days ago
There was a relatively serious bug caused by Mavericks' clang being a non-standard CPP, but I think that's fixed in newer versions of GHC. It's certainly possible to get a Cabal compiled on Mac, though.
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microtonal 4435 days ago
Against the usual recommendations, I install the Haskell platform with Homebrew. After that a 'cabal update ; cabal install cabal-install' gives a newer version without any problems.

And I agree that sandboxes are great!

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coolsunglasses 4435 days ago
I was able to compile Cabal/Cabal Install 1.18 and 1.20 on my Mavericks machine.

Have you sought help from the #haskell IRC channel?

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