It should build. If it doesn't, please report a bug.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Tim Docker <t...@dockerz.net> wrote:
> I'd like to build the haskell platform against a recent GHC snapshot, for
> testing purposes.
>
> I see that I can download the source for the platform from:
>
>
> http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz
>
> with instructions:
>
>    http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/haskell-platform.xhtml
>
> However when I tried this some months ago, I found that some of the packages
> in the above source fail to build due to recent ghc changes (eg it's
> stricter handling of bang patterns).
>
> Is there a more recent "beta" snapshot of the platform? Or a darcs/git repo
> somewhere? I imagine wanting to build the platform against bleeding edge ghc
> would be a pretty common desire.
>
> Tim
>
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