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Today's Topics:
1. haskell platform (Irvin)
2. Re: haskell platform (aditya siram)
3. Re: haskell platform (Daniel Fischer)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:40:53 -0400
From: Irvin <[email protected]>
Subject: [Haskell-beginners] haskell platform
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Hi
I'm having trouble installing Haskell platform using Ubuntu (Karmic
Koala). When I run ./configure I get the message
configure: error: The Haskell Platform version 2010.1.0.0 requires
ghc-6.12.1 It is recommended that you upgrade to ghc-6.12.1 however
if you really want to use this release with an unsupported version of
GHC then use ./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version
In synaptic the latest version of ghc is 6.10.xx; I've tried doing
./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version, but make fails to set up
Cabal.
Any suggestions? Should I just try to set up everything piece-meal?
Do I need to remove the currently installed version of ghc using
synaptic before I try to use the 6.12.1 installer or build it from
source. Thanks.
Best,
Irvin
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:50:21 -0500
From: aditya siram <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] haskell platform
To: Irvin <[email protected]>
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You can just download and install the binary version of 6.12.1 from
the GHC website [1]. It will stick the GHC binary and libraries under
/usr/local. This shouldn't interfere with Karmic which installs it to
/usr/ and '/usr/local' is usually first on the search path.
Once you have your compiler installed Haskell Platform should be a breeze.
Once everything's working you can then delete using Synaptic.
BTW I know that other people on this list differ but I think
installing any Haskell-related packages using apt-get is a bad idea.
Cabal is so easy that it makes apt-get obsolete.
hth,
-deech
[1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_1.html#x86linux
On 4/2/10, Irvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm having trouble installing Haskell platform using Ubuntu (Karmic
> Koala). When I run ./configure I get the message
>
> configure: error: The Haskell Platform version 2010.1.0.0 requires
> ghc-6.12.1 It is recommended that you upgrade to ghc-6.12.1 however
> if you really want to use this release with an unsupported version of
> GHC then use ./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version
>
> In synaptic the latest version of ghc is 6.10.xx; I've tried doing
> ./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version, but make fails to set up
> Cabal.
> Any suggestions? Should I just try to set up everything piece-meal?
> Do I need to remove the currently installed version of ghc using
> synaptic before I try to use the 6.12.1 installer or build it from
> source. Thanks.
> Best,
> Irvin
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:04:35 +0200
From: Daniel Fischer <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] haskell platform
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Am Freitag 02 April 2010 17:40:53 schrieb Irvin:
> Hi
> I'm having trouble installing Haskell platform using Ubuntu (Karmic
> Koala). When I run ./configure I get the message
>
> configure: error: The Haskell Platform version 2010.1.0.0 requires
> ghc-6.12.1 It is recommended that you upgrade to ghc-6.12.1 however
> if you really want to use this release with an unsupported version of
> GHC then use ./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version
>
> In synaptic the latest version of ghc is 6.10.xx; I've tried doing
> ./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version, but make fails to set up
> Cabal.
> Any suggestions?
You could use the previous version of the platform, which was for 6.10.x.
Perhaps there's a 6.12.1 in debian unstable, IIRC, Ubuntu uses debian
packages, so you could install that then.
Or you could build 6.12 from source.
> Should I just try to set up everything piece-meal?
Or that. Install just the packages you actually use. That worked before the
platform, it will continue to work, though getting a comprehensive set of
libraries is a bit more inconvenient.
> Do I need to remove the currently installed version of ghc using
> synaptic before I try to use the 6.12.1 installer or build it from
> source. Thanks.
If you build from source, you need a working GHC installed, so no.
Don't know about the binary, but usually there's no problem having multiple
versions of GHC at once, so probably you don't need to uninstall anyway.
> Best,
> Irvin
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