Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu writes:
Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do
about this bootstrapping problem?
I thought the answer to that was supposed to be bug your distribution to
package the Platform.
In my case, it's more like bug the IT
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On 10/16/10 12:07 , Ketil Malde wrote:
Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu writes:
Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do
about this bootstrapping problem?
I thought the answer to that was supposed to be
I needed GHC on a new machine, and went to download a binary tarball.
First, I go to http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_3.html,
which kindly suggests to get the Haskell Platform instead.
Then, at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html, I'm told that I
first need GHC, and pointed
ketil:
I needed GHC on a new machine, and went to download a binary tarball.
First, I go to http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_3.html,
which kindly suggests to get the Haskell Platform instead.
Then, at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html, I'm told that I
first need
Don Stewart d...@galois.com writes:
First, I go to http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_3.html,
which kindly suggests to get the Haskell Platform instead.
Then, at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html, I'm told that I
first need GHC, and pointed back to the GHC download page.
Don Stewart d...@galois.com writes:
Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually.
Speaking about which - this is made a lot more difficult than it need be
due to the way libc doesn't work with statically linked executables.
Basically, it seems to manually load hardwired dynamic
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote:
Uh, AFAIC, it's only a documentation bug - the GHC page seems to say
that GHC comes with HP, the HP page tells to go get GHC first. I'd just
change it to something like:
GHC: Click here to download... then go see Haskell
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On 10/15/10 11:26 , Don Stewart wrote:
Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do
about this bootstrapping problem?
I thought the answer to that was supposed to be bug your distribution to
package the Platform.
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