On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Karel Gardas <karel.gar...@centrum.cz> wrote: > Thanos Tsouanas wrote: >> Hello list. >> >> Up to now I've only used binary versions of GHC, but since >> my operating system's (OpenBSD) version of GHC is >> lagging behind (currently at 6.6.1), I need to update it. >> I tried using my system's ghc-6.6.1 to compile ghc-6.10.4 >> but it failed due to haskeline not being installed (and trying >> to install it also failed). > > Hello, > > it's already a long time since I installed ghc-6.10.3.20090530 on my > OpenBSD/amd64, but IIRC I really used system provided compiler and IIRC > I somehow managed to first install everything what's required on system > provided 6.6.1 to compile 6.10. I'm not sure if I went step by step > 6.6.1->6.8.3->6.10.3 as you try. Anyway I'm writing just to let you know > that it was somehow possible in the past and that you shall perhaps > concentrate on why it fails on your box. IMHO cross-compilation is no go > in this case since I hope I'm right assuming this is not supported in > 6.10, but was fixed in 6.12 again.
Perhaps you are right, I should stay on my system instead of cross compiling. In any case, I could wait to crosscompile 6.12 once it's officially out. > In the worst case I can provide you my binary if your platform is the > same, but it's 300MB unpacked tree so it'll take some time to pack and > upload somewhere for you. Thanks a lot, but unfortunately I'm on OpenBSD/i386. Cheers. -- Thanos Tsouanas http://mpla.math.uoa.gr/~thanos/ _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
