Hi devs, I would like to download GHC 8 binaries for Arch Linux on an x86-64 architecture. I assume I'm looking for an unknown-linux build, and it looks like what I want is a Tier 1 platform, according to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms Yet I don't see this release in https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/ Can you help? Thanks! Richard
On Linux, the builds are keyed by the OS name they were built on. This is
because systems like CentOS have different versions of libgmp, glibc than
e.g. Debian derivatives. So they actually refer to different paths, are
built against different APIs depending on what's available, etc. That's why
the names are distinguished; in the past only Debian-based builds were
offered, but I started building CentOS versions in the 7.8.x era.
The debian-based builds are normally the 'lowest common denominator' that
works on all modern systems. Given that, you want:
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/ghc-8.0.1-x86_64-deb8-linux.tar.xz
If you have a problem, just yell.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Richard Eisenberg
Hi devs,
I would like to download GHC 8 binaries for Arch Linux on an x86-64 architecture. I assume I'm looking for an unknown-linux build, and it looks like what I want is a Tier 1 platform, according to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms Yet I don't see this release in https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/
Can you help?
Thanks! Richard
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On Jun 5, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Austin Seipp
On Linux, the builds are keyed by the OS name they were built on. This is because systems like CentOS have different versions of libgmp, glibc than e.g. Debian derivatives. So they actually refer to different paths, are built against different APIs depending on what's available, etc. That's why the names are distinguished; in the past only Debian-based builds were offered, but I started building CentOS versions in the 7.8.x era.
The debian-based builds are normally the 'lowest common denominator' that works on all modern systems. Given that, you want:
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/ghc-8.0.1-x86_64-deb8-linux.tar.xz
Thanks for this explanation. If that's the go-to distribution for any arbitrary linux, perhaps we should make a symlink with "unknown-linux" point to it. To be clear, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I do see that many other directories on downloads.haskell.org/~ghc have "unknown-linux" options and I feel safer using that than a binary for a distribution I don't have. In any case, thanks for the clarification! Richard
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