On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Karel Gardas
Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
Hello list.
Up to now I've only used binary versions of GHC, but since my operating system's (OpenBSD) version of GHC is lagging behind (currently at 6.6.1), I need to update it. I tried using my system's ghc-6.6.1 to compile ghc-6.10.4 but it failed due to haskeline not being installed (and trying to install it also failed).
Hello,
it's already a long time since I installed ghc-6.10.3.20090530 on my OpenBSD/amd64, but IIRC I really used system provided compiler and IIRC I somehow managed to first install everything what's required on system provided 6.6.1 to compile 6.10. I'm not sure if I went step by step 6.6.1->6.8.3->6.10.3 as you try. Anyway I'm writing just to let you know that it was somehow possible in the past and that you shall perhaps concentrate on why it fails on your box. IMHO cross-compilation is no go in this case since I hope I'm right assuming this is not supported in 6.10, but was fixed in 6.12 again.
Perhaps you are right, I should stay on my system instead of cross compiling. In any case, I could wait to crosscompile 6.12 once it's officially out.
In the worst case I can provide you my binary if your platform is the same, but it's 300MB unpacked tree so it'll take some time to pack and upload somewhere for you.
Thanks a lot, but unfortunately I'm on OpenBSD/i386. Cheers. -- Thanos Tsouanas http://mpla.math.uoa.gr/~thanos/