Oh, good question. It was Ubuntu 12.04 LTS so I just assumed it would be
too old without checking.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Simon Marlow
On 21/08/13 15:44, Ryan Newton wrote:
Hi all,
Returning to the topic discussed by Simon M. and others here:
http://projects.haskell.org/**pipermail/haskell-platform/** 2009-July/000572.htmlhttp://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2009-July/000572.html
This is my attempt at a script for bootstrapping a GHC-validating VM:
http://parfunk.blogspot.com/**2013/08/zero-to-ghc-** development-in-ubuntu-vm-in.**htmlhttp://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/zero-to-ghc-development-in-ubuntu-vm-in....
Let me know if there's a better way, or if you'd like to help get this kind of thing into an even more accessible form (Amazon AMI, Chef recipe, etc).
I do this occasionally with an Amazon VM. Incidentally, why did you download the GHC 7.6.3 tarball rather than apt-get install ghc? The current GHC on Ubuntu is 7.4 which is enough to bootstrap GHC HEAD.
Cheers, Simon