[haskell-platform] #78: Cabal fails to work when haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1 compiled with GHC 6.10.4

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#78: Cabal fails to work when haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1 compiled with GHC
6.10.4
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 Reporter:  badsheepy         |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new
 Priority:  major             |   Milestone:     
Component:  (none-specified)  |    Keywords:     
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 Apologies if this should have been posted as a GHC bug or elsewhere.

 On my (ubuntu linux) machine, compiling and installing haskell-
 platform-2009.2.0.1 with GHC 6.10.4 appears to work, however subsequently
 running cabal gives the following error:
 $ cabal update
 cabal: : openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

 rm -r ~/.cabal makes update work, but then the error resurfaces when using
 any other cabal option.

 Re-compiling with GHC 6.10.3 fixes this bug and makes cabal work again.

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