Ian Lynagh wrote:
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.10.2:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.2-rc1/
This includes two source bundles:
ghc-6.10.1.20090314-src.tar.bz2 ghc-6.10.1.20090314-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
Awesome! This release candidate is also available for testing purposes through the gentoo haskell overlay. http://code.haskell.org/gentoo/gentoo-haskell/ You can use the overlay either through layman (overlay called haskell) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml or by yourself a la old school, PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf. We don't yet have any ebuilds for the extralibs. GHC is hard masked, meaning only available for testing purposes, use caution :) $ echo dev-lang/ghc >> /etc/portage/package.unmask It's also keyworded ~amd64 ~x86, meaning you'll have to allow potentially unstable packages: $ echo dev-lang/ghc >> /etc/portage/package.keywords Last but not least, the ebuild does not provide any bootstrapping binary to compile ghc, so you need to already have a version of ghc installed to bootstrap with. Then emerge with $ USE="ghcbootstrap -binary" emerge dev-lang/ghc Please report any issues in #gentoo-haskell @ freenode. Cheers, Lennart Kolmodin -- Gentoo Dev