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    Fix CI on Mac OS X with GHC 7.8 and earlier. · 2ed454ee
    Mikhail Glushenkov authored
    
    
    On recent OS X, Cabal does not work correctly because it assumes
    that a permission denied error when reading permissions on
    executables, resulting in errors like "Setup: /usr/bin/ar: permission denied".
    
    The proximal fix for this is to add a constraint on unix when we build
    Cabal/cabal-install to avoid building with the buggy version of unix.
    But this causes other problems:
    
    - Bumping the version of unix means that our local build of Cabal
      will depend on things from the store.  But we weren't passing
      this to GHC when compiled Setup.hs for Cabal's package-tests.
      Set CABAL_PACKAGETESTS_DB_STACK env var explicitly to point
      to the right locations.
    
    - The new configuration of versions exposed some bugs in some
      macro expanded code in cabal-install; we qualified those
      imports to squash unused warnings.
    
    - The cabal-install integration-tests occasionally use Cabal from
      the system GHC.  Since this will never work on OS X, we just
      skip the tests in those cases.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEdward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu>
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