Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1, release candidate 1

Andrés Sicard-Ramírez writes:

On 13 January 2016 at 10:43, Ben Gamari wrote:

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The GHC Team is very pleased to announce the first release candidate of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1 release. Source and binary distributions as well as the newly revised users guide can be found at

http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc1/

I'm using Ubuntu precise (12.04LTS). How I know which binary distribution should install?

I'm asking because I could install without problems both

ghc*x86_64-deb7-linux* and

ghc*x86_64-deb8-linux*.

You should likely be using the deb8 build in this case. The only difference is the libc version which is linked against. Cheers, - Ben