Description of problem: All cabal install commands fail without ghc-Cabal-devel package installed. For users not familiar with haskell it is hard to resolve the problem. Cabal is often used as installer without any further haskell development. The package ghc-Cabal-devel should be considerer as dependency. How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: $ cabal install array Actual results: Resolving dependencies... Configuring array-0.5.1.1... Failed to install array-0.5.1.1 Build log ( /home/kafka/.cabal/logs/array-0.5.1.1.log ): cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: array-0.5.1.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: user error (The package 'array' requires Cabal library version -any && >=1.10 but no suitable version is installed.) Expected results: Resolving dependencies... Configuring array-0.5.1.1... Building array-0.5.1.1... Installed array-0.5.1.1 Additional info:
Thanks for the report. Fixing first in cabal-install-1.24.0.2-2.fc27
cabal-install-1.24.0.2-2.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f14eab8e0f
cabal-install-1.24.0.2-2.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f14eab8e0f
cabal-install-1.22.9.0-2.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-3d3510859a
cabal-install-1.22.9.0-2.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
cabal-install-1.24.0.2-2.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
I believe with cabal-install 2.x, the Cabal library is no longer needed for most packages at least those that do not have custom Setup.