On Monday 23 May 2011 14:16:43, Jacek Generowicz wrote: > > > From this, you should be able to build 7.0.3 yourself. > > That's interesting. I won't try that *right* now. >
It's easy, assuming you have installed alex and happy (and preferably hscolour), just download and unpack the source bundle, $ ./configure --prefix=wherever If it says it's going to build pdf and ps docs, that may fail if you have the wrong version of dblatex. $ make && make install Go play a football match or something, that takes a while. > > As for the platform, if it is giving you trouble, don't shy away from > > just using GHC and cabal as normal! After you've cabal installed a few > > big packages, you will find that you've acquired many of the most > > popular packages. > > If by "cabal install" you mean use the command "cabal" ... yeah, that > would be great, if only I could install cabal-install, which fails. With what error? Downloading and unpacking the .tar.gz bundle and then running $ ./bootstrap.sh in that directory should work. > Or do you mean "manual install" of Cabal packages? That's not very comfortable, since you have to chase dependencies manually. Spending some effort to get cabal-install installed is definitely worth it. > > Yup, ~/.ghc and ~/.cabal didn't escape my attention. > > Except that it doesn't seem to have worked (yet - hope springs eternal). > > When I ghc-pkg check, I get lots of complaints about ~/.cabal/lib/ > somelibrary/ghc-7.0.3 not being found. Erm, I nuked it all and then > installed ghc-7.0.3 from scratch (generic Linux binary package), so > I've no idea *why* my system thinks that these should exist unless > *it* put them there after the purge during the installation of ghc. > > Any ideas how to solve this? > Probably some package.conf.d survived the purge and was picked up by the fresh ghc. If you've deleted ~/.ghc, that would be in /usr/xxx. If you dare not messing around there, you could install ghc under $HOME, that shouldn't pick it up then. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe