[Haskell-cafe] Problem Installing ad (Automatic Differentiation) Package

2012-04-21 Thread Dominic Steinitz
Hi, I was trying to install ad (Automatic Differentiation) but got the following error. I guess the answer is to upgrade my ghc (perhaps someone could confirm) but I am using the Haskell Platform and would rather stick with that. I see from http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ that the next

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problem Installing ad (Automatic Differentiation) Package

2012-04-21 Thread Edward Kmett
I'll need to get an older ghc version installed, so I can try to figure out what changes are needed to make template haskell bits compatible back to the current platform. 'ad' uses TH rather extensively, and sadly, the update to support ghc 7.4.1 broke a fair bit of the old code gen -- as I