Hmm, I'll give it a try, thanks! 
As for the other errors for sure there is missing Binary instance for strict ByteStrings in newest binary package. 
Another one is instance for Show (Identity a) which in turn needed to be commented out because it appeared in newer version of some other package, don't know which one. 
Lastly I get a lot of errors caused by mixing library versions. I *think* that the problem is that, unlike Cabal, the Makefile specifies -package foo without specific versions. The result is that, given the fact that I have more than 1 version of many libraries installed, it tries to build with two different versions of same library, or so would it seem: 1 is dependency of other library, the other is from -package specification. I think this is the case.
This is why I asked for specific versions of all the libraries involved. The idea was to simply specify *all* of them on command line and/or Makefile. 

Right now I don't have time to replicate the errors, but I will try again building jhc later.


Best regards,
Krzysztof

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:09 AM, John Meacham <john@repetae.net> wrote:
Yeah, there was a bug in the way it detected editline/readline which
has been fixed in the repo.

You can run configure with --disable-line to work around it. or change
the word USE_NOLINE to USE_READLINE in src/Util/Interact.hs

always some silly typo that works its way in somewhere. I should stop
the version number shift and declare it 1.0.0 and use the third digit
for actual point releases rather than keep the perpetual 0.x.y wasting
the first digit. but then I can't hide behind the 'beta' shield
anymore. :)

    John

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Jens Petersen
<juhp@community.haskell.org> wrote:
> Thank you for the new release. :)
>
> On 13 May 2014 04:40, John Meacham <john@repetae.net> wrote:
>>
>> as for the packages i've been testing with
>>
>>
>> fgl,regex-compat,bytestring,binary,mtl,containers,unix,utf8-string,zlib,HsSyck,filepath,process,syb,old-time,pretty.
>
>
> and editline ?
>
> For me it fails to build on Fedora 20 with the readline package but
> completes with editline.
>
> Krzysztof: maybe try removing or hiding the readline package or posting your
> build error. :)
>
> Jens
>



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