Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

On Nov 7, 2007 6:14 AM, Cale Gibbard wrote:

On 06/11/2007, Tim Docker wrote:

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I can confirm that ghc-6.8.1 builds from source completely without fuss on the latest ubuntu (7.10).

(... though it took a couple of hours of cpu time :-)

Tim

I can confirm that the generic x86 binary package for 6.8.1 works on Ubuntu 7.10, provided that you use alien to install the readline-compat RPM which is provided on the same page.

Didn't work for me : Installs fine, ghci works fine, but I get linking problems. ld complains about -lgmp