Error when running cabal-install: ExitFailure 1 (Mac OS X lion)

Question

I get the following error when trying to run cabal install cabal-install I have installed the haskell platform from: http://www.haskell.org/platform/ for Mac OS X Lion. I want to run cabal install cabal-install so I can install quickcheck

When trying to update, I get this erro.

$ cabal install cabal-install
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring cabal-install-1.16.0...
Building cabal-install-1.16.0...
Preprocessing executable 'cabal' for cabal-install-1.16.0...
<command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id HTTP-4000.2.3-d6c69f84aec25261a9a3f6946119d9d2
    (use -v for more information)
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
cabal-install-1.16.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

Answer 1

Try:

sudo ghc-pkg recache

I had the same problem and that works for me.

Answer 2

Go to your .cabal/config file, look for the line that says "library-profiling: ". This should be set to "False" for MacOSX, otherwise it will fail to find the packages that are installed. You'll get funny errors from the build phase where it was unable to import certain modules because "maybe" certain packages aren't installed.