Hi Roman,
Thank you for suggesting that I take another look at compiling from
source under Fedora 21. This is indeed quite straightforward
(configure --prefix=..., make, make install). The reason it failed
earlier is that I had the latest build (from HEAD) in my path:
ghc=7.11.20150111. Bootstrapping using this version of GHC is not
supported. I should have paid closer attention to the diagnostics!
After installing from the supplied binaries (for CentOS or Debian) I
ran into problems installing pandoc (cabal install pandoc). There was
an unresolved reference to libHSprimitive-0.5.4.0.so, I think.
Cheers,
Dominick
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:34 AM, Roman Cheplyaka
On 12/01/15 04:00, Dominick Samperi wrote:
Hi Roman.
As I said in my comments I tried the binary distribution provided for CentOS65 Linux but ran into problems. I also tried the distribution provided for Debian Linux; this installed, but there were problems.
Fedora is the most "cutting edge" distro, and there is no ghc binary provided for it. I was able to build from source under Fedora 20 about a year ago.
% lsb_release -d Description: Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
% ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.8.3
There's no reason the binary ghc release shouldn't work for you (specifically, the deb7 one). What problems did you run into?
(There's also no reason you shouldn't be able to build from source; but if all you want is just a working ghc installation, installing the bindist is much easier and faster.)
Roman