FS#56927 - cabal-install seems broken: Could not find module ‘Prelude’ despite changing defaults

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Maciej Piechotka (Uzytkownik) - Tuesday, 02 January 2018, 13:40 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 05 January 2018, 08:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

When I try to install some packages

% cabal install ...
distributive-0.5.3-L7CArquUCblDevaNgAwzQR failed during the configure step.
The exception was:
dieVerbatim: user error (cabal: '/usr/bin/ghc' exited with an error:

/tmp/cabal-tmp-5583/distributive-0.5.3/dist/dist-sandbox-124d64f/setup/setup.hs:4:8:
error:
Could not find module ‘Prelude’
There are files missing in the ‘base-4.10.1.0’ package,
try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
|
4 | module Main (main) where
| ^^^^
% grep -P '(library-vanilla|shared|executable-dynamic)' ~/.cabal/config
library-vanilla: False
shared: True
executable-dynamic: True

community/ghc 8.2.2-1 [installed]
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Friday, 05 January 2018, 08:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Everything from the repos has to be done dynamically now

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