id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
3037	GHC panics when configuring base	mooism		"
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$ wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.0.0.0/base-4.0.0.0.tar.gz
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$ tar zxf base-4.0.0.0.tar.gz 
$ cd base-4.0.0.0
$ runhaskell Setup.hs configure

<interactive>:1:22:
    attempting to use module `System.IO' (System/IO.hs) which is not loaded

<interactive>:1:22: Not in scope: `System.IO.stderr'

<interactive>:1:22: Not in scope: `System.IO.stdin'
ghc-6.8.2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 6.8.2 for i386-unknown-linux):
	interactiveUI:setBuffering

Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug


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I am using Ubuntu 8.10 Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686.

I am having trouble using cabal-install, and my real problem may lie there, but I thought I should report this anyway."	bug	closed	normal		Compiler	6.8.2	wontfix			Linux	x86		Unknown				
