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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2015-06-14T16:48:36Z"
+ content="""
+This is cabal trying to resolve the dependencies and failing to find any
+solution, and trying harder and harder as it leaks memory somewhere.
+
+IIRC newer versions of cabal behave better in these situations, but the
+underlying problem is that there is a problem in your set of installed
+haskell libraries that prevents cabal finding a solution.
+
+cabal configure -v3 will show you the dependency resolver at work, and can be examined
+to find the details. But, the easy solution is probably to use stackage
+which will provide cabal with a canned dependency solution. Just copy
+`standalone/linux/cabal.config` to the top of the source tree and re-run
+cabal configure.
+"""]]