Re: Working with GHC HEAD

Antoine Latter wrote:

I was trying to see what GHC head was like, but I've run into a few snags compiling packages.

There's a discrepancy between ghc and ghc-pkg that causes this. See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3410

My existing binary for cabal-install can install quite a few packages, but then starts giving me strange errors eventually:

I believe cabal-install goes through ghc-pkg rather than manipulating the package configuration directly. So this should work in theory.

- Does anyone have a version of 'network' which builds against GHC head? I could bludgeon in the new GHC.IO.FD.FD type myself, but I'd thought I'd ask around first.

http://int-e.home.tlink.de/haskell/network-ghc-6.11.dpatch works for me. Bertram