[TL;DR: there's a concrete question at the bottom.]
Once again I find myself in the pleasant situation where the slings
and arrows of life in general are slightly less intense, and I manage
to find a few spare minutes and some free brain cycles to dedicate to
Haskell.
Why not try GHC 7.0.3? (after all, GHC 7 has been out for a good few
months, so the teething troubles should have passed by now), and
there's a lovely new Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 to go with it, so,
maybe this time, I'll actually be able to use some of the libraries
that I tried and failed to install during my last period of Haskell
study.
The two computers I have available for playing with Haskell run OS X
Leopard (10.5), and Ubuntu Natty (11.04).
First up OS X: It seems that GHC 7 (and consequently Platform 2011.2)
require OS X 10.6. OK, let's forget that one.
Next up: Ubuntu. There's a Linux Link on the Haskell Platform Page.
Ooooh, there's an Ubuntu link. Ooooh! there's even a package for
Natty, great! Version 2010.1.0.0.1 WTF? Where's the 2011.2 package?
There isn't one.
OOoooKaaaayyyy. Any workarounds. Well, we can install from source,
apparently. But we need GHC 7.0.3 first. Fine. Done. Now let's install
the platorm. [Does obvious thing, compilation fails.] Hmm, let's
follow the "Complete instructions for installing from source"
http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/haskell-platform.xhtml
just in case I did something stupid. [Follows instructions: failure.]
OK, maybe something somewhere is causing some confusion with
previously installed versions of GHC, Cabal, whatever. [Performs
Haskell pogrom on system: removes all traces of anything Haskell
related. Follows "Complete instructions [...]" WORD ... FOR ... WORD.
Failure].
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !
I can't take it any more. I just want to write some Haskell, and every
time I want to venture beyond the safe confines of the Prelude I get
bogged down in installation hell. Next time I have some spare time, I
will be more reluctant to risk having that time stolen by the Haskell
infrastructure installation process.
So, after this tale of agony, here are two concrete questions:
a) Am I right in concluding that GHC 7.0.3 will not run on OS X 10.5
(without unreasonable effort)?
b) On Ubuntu Natty I installed the generic linux GHC 7.0.3 binary.
Downloaded Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 source distribution. ./
configure worked happily. make fails as follows.
Building transformers-0.2.2.0
"/usr/local/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1/bin/ghc" "--make" "Setup" "-o"
"Setup" "-package" "Cabal-1.10.1.0"
<command line>: cannot satisfy -package Cabal-1.10.1.0:
Cabal-1.10.1.0-1fb2094e19492373b1a39284193e7984 is unusable due
to missing or recursive dependencies:
process-1.0.1.5-55dfaccf3a91c4cb8f6284a0bafef198
Could anybody help me get past this problem?
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