Yo Haskell programmers, I've just updated ghcHEAD to a reasonably up-to-date Git snapshot, and it works quite well. In the interest of doubling compile times for everyone trying to use it, haskellPackages_ghcHEAD now has full shared-library support enabled by default, so Haskell binaries come at a whopping 300KB:
| $ nix-build -o /tmp/cabal2nix ~/.nix-defexpr -A haskellPackages_ghcHEAD.cabal2nix | /nix/store/7lrm31hf7lns8qbac7ciqq351gs603rr-cabal2nix-1.56 | | $ ls -lh /tmp/cabal2nix/bin/cabal2nix | -r-xr-xr-x 1 root nixbld 360K Jan 1 1970 /tmp/cabal2nix/bin/cabal2nix 'ldd' will tell a different story, though. :-) So, if you'd like to test your code against the upcoming 7.8 release, you can now use Nix to do it. Note that Hydra Central Services don't build the ghcHEAD package set. You can pull *some* binaries for Linux/x86_64 from my server after running: nix-pull http://hydra.cryp.to/project/nixpkgs/channel/latest/MANIFEST Have fun, Peter _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
