Corey, would you mind posting your working vesion? If you can actually build GHC 7.8, I would be very interested!
Aloha, RK. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Corey O'Connor <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for the help Peter. > > I tried using ghcWithPackagesOld and, in this case, that worked fine. Cool! > > This bug is unfortunate. I was pretty happy to see terminfo bundled with > GHC. This meant the hardest part of installing vty, installing terminfo, > would already be done in 7.8. Darn, no such luck. > > Cheers, > Corey > > -Corey O'Connor > [email protected] > http://corebotllc.com/ > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Corey >> >> GHC 7.8.x installs a copy of xhtml, but it doesn't make that library >> visible to users. >> >> This choice causes us serious trouble that we cannot easily resolve: we >> can't install your own copy of xhtml, because it collides with GHC's >> copy (as you have found out). Yet, we cannot access GHC's copy either, >> so we *need* to install our own version. Duh! >> >> I've opened a ticket [1] for this issue a while ago, but GHC HQ hasn't >> addressed it yet (probably because I didn't do a good job explaining why >> this is issue is significant). >> >> Anyway, you can use 'ghcWithPackagesOld' instead of 'ghcWithPackages' to >> create your environment. ghcWithPackagesOld simply ignores all >> collisions and chose a "random" version of the colliding paths to >> include in the derivation. This sucks from an aesthetics point of view, >> but it's probably going to work fine. >> >> I hope this helps, >> Peter >> >> >> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8919 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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