On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Adrian May <adrian.alexander....@gmail.com>wrote:
> >> Also, the Haskell Platform ./configure step checks which version of GHC >> you have installed, and requires you to pass the option --enable-* >> unsupported*-*ghc*-version in order to compile it with anything other >> than GHC 7.4.2. >> >> Did you try an unsupported version? And now you're complaining? >> > > This is getting into minutia now, but yes I tried the unsupported flag and > as I already explained it barfed about the prelude. > How is it minutia that you expect an unsupported version of GHC to work? Yes, I try it out sometimes. And if it works, great. If not, too bad, I'll wait until the next Haskell Platform. I don't whine about it in public. > So I installed 7.4.2 from source but that confused cabal because my > attempt to uninstall the ubuntu package with 7.4.1 in had failed with > dependency-hell. Figuring out why (or even that) my packages weren't being > seen was the puzzle I was referring to. > So the complaint is about Ubuntu? > The point is that we wouldn't have to be talking about this at all if > people didn't move the furniture around all the time. > That's not a very good point. It sounds as though you're the one who moved furniture around, considering that you managed to mix up Ubuntu's GHC package with your hand-built ones.
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