Oh, good question. It was Ubuntu 12.04 LTS so I just assumed it would be too old without checking.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21/08/13 15:44, Ryan Newton wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Returning to the topic discussed by Simon M. and others here: >> >> http://projects.haskell.org/**pipermail/haskell-platform/** >> 2009-July/000572.html<http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2009-July/000572.html> >> >> This is my attempt at a script for bootstrapping a GHC-validating VM: >> >> http://parfunk.blogspot.com/**2013/08/zero-to-ghc-** >> development-in-ubuntu-vm-in.**html<http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/zero-to-ghc-development-in-ubuntu-vm-in.html> >> >> Let me know if there's a better way, or if you'd like to help get this >> kind of thing into an even more accessible form (Amazon AMI, Chef >> recipe, etc). >> > > I do this occasionally with an Amazon VM. Incidentally, why did you > download the GHC 7.6.3 tarball rather than apt-get install ghc? The > current GHC on Ubuntu is 7.4 which is enough to bootstrap GHC HEAD. > > Cheers, > Simon > > >
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