GHC 8.0 will require Cabal \>1.22 due to a variety of interface changes (see #10714, [D1780](https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1780), https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-January/010978.html). Unfortunately things currently blow up late in compilation with a seemingly unrelated error when this requirement isn't met. Namely, we complain about bad interface files for dependencies. For instance, ``` Text/Parsec/Prim.hs:85:1: error: Bad interface file: /root/.cabal/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.0.0.20160204/mtl-2.2.1-9wMhzcfsAXi7cNtl9n7svO/Control/Monad/Cont/Class.hi Something is amiss; requested module mtl-2.2.1@mtl-2.2.1-1af5dabd2d7abb688f2145aec87badc4:Control.Monad.Cont.Class differs from name found in the interface file mtl_9wMhzcfsAXi7cNtl9n7svO:Control.Monad.Cont.Class ``` # For users seeing this error The solution here is to install `Cabal` 1.23 or later and a `cabal-install` linking against it. Currently this requires installing `Cabal` and `cabal-install` from git. This is most easily done using GHC 7.10. Finally, you need to clear your package database. This can be done with, ``` $ git clone git://github.com/haskell/cabal $ cd cabal $ cabal update $ cabal install Cabal/ cabal-install/ $ rm -R $HOME/.ghc/*-8.0.0* ```