In order support some older software that we released, we need
to get a working GHC 7.4.2 on Ubuntu Trusty. We currently have
GHC 7.8.3.
The binary tarball for GHC 7.4.2 does not install on Trusty due to
multiple incompatibilities. For example, GHC requires GMP 3, but
Trusty only provides GMP =
Here's an off-the-wall solution idea: you could try the Nix package
manager. It essentially sandboxes everything all the time, so you
shouldn't have any trouble with dependencies like this, and ghc 7.4.2 is
explicitly supported. Of course, if your requirements include tight apt
integration, this
On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 13:48 +0300, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
In order support some older software that we released, we need
to get a working GHC 7.4.2 on Ubuntu Trusty. We currently have
GHC 7.8.3.
The binary tarball for GHC 7.4.2 does not install on Trusty due to
multiple incompatibilities. For
I wrote:
How do I get a working GHC 7.4.2 on Trusty?
Thanks to all for the suggestions.
Daniel Trstenjak wrote, off-list:
I can only recommend: https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc
Thanks Daniel! I hadn't looked at Herbert's ppa for a while. Despite
the comments, which say it is
Hi,
It shouldn't be hard to do the merge, but I am not sure that I'll have time
to do it before the weekend---I'll give it a go then.
-Iavor
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Adam Gundry a...@well-typed.com wrote:
Thanks Iavor, this is really helpful!
If you have a moment to merge Simon's
