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Building GHC 6.12.1 with Cabal 1.9.0 installed

Reported by Nicolas Martyanoff <khaelin@gmail.com> on glasgow-haskell-users. I expect the build system is picking up Cabal 1.9.0 in preference to the version in the source tree.

I thought it might be good to build GHC 6.12.1 with itself just to be sure it's working fine before make a dist, but I now get the following error:

"/usr/local/bin/ghc"   -H32m -O  -package-conf libraries/bootstrapping.conf  -package-name ghc-6.12.1 -hide-all-packages -i -icompiler/nativeGen -icompiler/basicTypes -icompiler/cmm -icompiler/codeGen -icompiler/coreSyn -icompiler/cprAnalysis -icompiler/deSugar -icompiler/ghci -icompiler/hsSyn -icompiler/iface -icompiler/main -icompiler/parser -icompiler/prelude -icompiler/profiling -icompiler/rename -icompiler/simplCore -icompiler/simplStg -icompiler/specialise -icompiler/stgSyn -icompiler/stranal -icompiler/typecheck -icompiler/types -icompiler/utils -icompiler/vectorise -icompiler/stage1/build -icompiler/stage1/build/autogen -Icompiler/stage1/build -Icompiler/stage1/build/autogen -Icompiler/stage1 -Icompiler/../libraries/base/cbits -Icompiler/../libraries/base/include -Icompiler/. -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils    -optP-include -optPcompiler/stage1/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -package Cabal-1.9.0 -package array-0.3.0.0 -package base-4.2.0.0 -package bin-package-db-0.0.0.0 -package bytestring-0.9.1.5 -package containers-0.3.0.0 -package directory-1.0.1.0 -package filepath-1.1.0.3 -package hpc-0.5.0.4 -package old-time-1.0.0.3 -package process-1.0.1.2 -package unix-2.4.0.0  -DSTAGE=1 -Wall -fno-warn-name-shadowing -fno-warn-orphans -XCPP -XMagicHash -XUnboxedTuples -XPatternGuards -XForeignFunctionInterface -XEmptyDataDecls -XTypeSynonymInstances -XMultiParamTypeClasses -XFlexibleInstances -XRank2Types -XScopedTypeVariables -XDeriveDataTypeable -XRelaxedPolyRec     -odir compiler/stage1/build -hidir compiler/stage1/build -stubdir compiler/stage1/build -hisuf hi -osuf  o -hcsuf hc -c compiler/main/Packages.lhs -o compiler/stage1/build/Packages.o

compiler/main/Packages.lhs:233:63:
    Couldn't match expected type `InstalledPackageInfo_ String'
           against inferred type `Cabal-1.8.0.2:Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo.InstalledPackageInfo_
                                    m'
      Expected type: [InstalledPackageInfo_ String]
      Inferred type: [Cabal-1.8.0.2:Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo.InstalledPackageInfo_
                        m]
    In the second argument of `map', namely `conf'
    In the first argument of `return', namely
        `(map installedPackageInfoToPackageConfig conf)'
gmake[1]: *** [compiler/stage1/build/Packages.o] Error 1
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

I tried to "ghc-pkg mask" Cabal-1.8.0.2, then Cabal-1.9.0, didn't change anything.

Does someone know what's going on here, and what can be done to fix it ?

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Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
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Resolution Unresolved
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