I never tried NetBSD, however my initial thought was to install FreeBSD.
Unfortunately FreeBSD installer did not pick up the built-in SATA controller and therefore I couldn't install it.
OpenBSD installed withouth a hitch. No need to run Linux packages, they all have native ghc and many other related packages.

The issue I asked about is not present on OpenBSD amd64 port.

On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:46:35 PM, MJ Williams <matthewjwilliams101@gmail.com> wrote:

Any reason for installing OpenBSD and not NetBSD or FreeBSD? I think
you can run any Linux package including ghc on both of those.

At 20:10 20/05/2014, you wrote:
>Good day all,
>
>I installed OpenBSD 5.5 in order to learn haskell.
>There are a few glitches however. I installed the haskell-platform
>meta-package and the issues I noticed are:
>- hs-vector wouldn't install
>- ghci wouldn't start, the message: unable to load package `integer-gmp'
>
>Has anyone experienced the same issue? Is this happening on OpenBSD 5.4?
>Is this OpenBSD specific?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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