For transformers, I needed:
diff --git a/Control/Monad/Trans/Error.hs b/Control/Monad/Trans/Error.hs
index 0158a8a..0dea478 100644
--- a/Control/Monad/Trans/Error.hs
+++ b/Control/Monad/Trans/Error.hs
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ instance MonadPlus IO where
mzero = ioError (userError mzero)
Hey guys,
I have a local branch of ghc-7.8 which can be compiled by 7.10.
The most annoying patch that needed to be backported was AMP
adjustment changes. I also messed up some stuff involving LANGUAGE
pragmas which I am going to go back and clean up.
Resurrecting this thread:
My impression was that Edward's suggestion was a simple and
obvious solution to the problem of previous GHC versions quickly
becoming orphaned and unbuildable. But Austin thought that this
thread was stuck.
Would Edward's suggestion be difficult to implement for any
I wrote:
This thread makes it clear what a mess
we have inherited from the days when GHC was primarily a
research compiler. Let's face it - GHC is now also a serious
production compiler, and this urgently needs to be cleaned up.
hvr wrote:
Are you referring to the GMP dependency or something
Excerpts from Yitzchak Gale's message of 2014-10-28 13:58:08 -0700:
How about this: Currently, every GHC source distribution
requires no later than its own version of GHC for bootstrapping.
Going backwards, that chops up the sequence of GHC versions
into tiny incompatible pieces - there is no
In order support some older software that we released, we need
to get a working GHC 7.4.2 on Ubuntu Trusty. We currently have
GHC 7.8.3.
The binary tarball for GHC 7.4.2 does not install on Trusty due to
multiple incompatibilities. For example, GHC requires GMP 3, but
Trusty only provides GMP = 4
to get a working GHC 7.4.2 on Ubuntu Trusty. We currently have
GHC 7.8.3.
The binary tarball for GHC 7.4.2 does not install on Trusty due to
multiple incompatibilities. For example, GHC requires GMP 3, but
Trusty only provides GMP = 4. Etc.
I tried building GHC 7.4.2. from source on Trusty
On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 13:48 +0300, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
In order support some older software that we released, we need
to get a working GHC 7.4.2 on Ubuntu Trusty. We currently have
GHC 7.8.3.
The binary tarball for GHC 7.4.2 does not install on Trusty due to
multiple incompatibilities
I wrote:
How do I get a working GHC 7.4.2 on Trusty?
Thanks to all for the suggestions.
Daniel Trstenjak wrote, off-list:
I can only recommend: https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc
Thanks Daniel! I hadn't looked at Herbert's ppa for a while. Despite
the comments, which say it is
