Re: [Nix-dev] run-time dependency missing in cabal-install

2012-10-24 Thread Peter Simons
rocon...@theorem.ca wrote: cabal install transformers-0.2.2.0 (and other cabal commands) says that ar is missing on a fresh nix install. I am not sure that this fact constitutes a missing dependency. The cabal executable searches $PATH at run-time for tools like ghc, ar, happy, alex,

Re: [Nix-dev] Should we switch the default Haskell compiler to GHC 7.4.2?

2012-10-24 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I've been using 7.4.2 for everything since it came out. No objections On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi guys, the default 'haskellPackages' attribute is based on GHC 7.4.1, which is the version recommended by the latest Haskell Platform. However, GHC

Re: [Nix-dev] Should we switch the default Haskell compiler to GHC 7.4.2?

2012-10-24 Thread Andres Loeh
the default 'haskellPackages' attribute is based on GHC 7.4.1, which is the version recommended by the latest Haskell Platform. However, GHC 7.4.2 was released a while ago, and IMHO that version is just as stable as 7.4.1 -- if not more --, so I would like to switch our default choice of the

[Nix-dev] enableParallelbuilding for many packages

2012-10-24 Thread Marc Weber
I've written a small quick and dirty ruby script: http://mawercer.de/run-tests.rb for each package if enableParallelbuilding is not set yet it will build it three times: 1st to build all dependencies (with enableParallelbuilding) 2nd without enableParallelbuilding 3rd with enableParallelbuilding