On Thursday 24 December 2009 02:55:33 you wrote:
The Haskell Platform is currently the recommended way to go, but it won't be up on GHC 6.12 until some time in the new year (I don't know their timelines).
I see, thanks.
For me, I didn't have a working GHC 6.12 setup until this morning. The compiler is ready, but we're still working on moving the libraries over to the new major version.
Maybe compiling your own 6.10.4 would be the best choice until the next platform release.
Is that better than using the 6.10.4 from Debian (and the haskell-platform package)?
If you're willing to dive in, the version of cabal-install that works for GHC 6.12.1 is out now, but it does require some boot-strapping to get going, as GHC no longer ships libraries that aren't required to build GHC.
Yeah, I tried installing cabal from source as well but couldn't get it to work either.
But back to the GHC panic, it might be worth posting that error to the GHC-users list I mentioned earlier.
I cannot reproduce it with GHC 6.10 so it has probably long since been fixed (6.8 is two years old!). -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e