Hello fellow GHC users, Ian Lynagh wrote:
============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1 ==============================================================
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How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
Gentoo Linux users can get it from the gentoo-haskell overlay[1]. If you're not familiar with this overlay (a gold mine for haskell hackers using gentoo), you can easily use layman[2] to get access. Make sure you have darcs installed, as it is a requirement for our overlay. Once layman is set up, add the overlay with: $ layman -a haskell Note that ghc-6.10.1 still is masked by keyword, and you need to unmask it first. If you're not familiar with how to do this, here's a quick guide: # make sure /etc/portage exists $ [[ -d /etc/portage ]] || mkdir /etc/portage # accept ghc being ~arch $ echo "dev-lang/ghc" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords # ghc requires the very latest libedit package $ echo "dev-libs/libedit" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords You may then install ghc-6.10.1 by saying: # this requires that you already have an older ghc version installed $ USE="ghcbootstrap -binary" emerge ghc The USE flags are required as we don't just yet provide the required binaries to bootstrap ghc. The command above requires that you already have a ghc version installed to bootstrap with. This version will be replaced with ghc-6.10.1 once the installation finishes. GHC binaries will follow shortly, which will shorten the procedure to: $ emerge ghc The packages from extralibs will also be available from the overlay. If you run into trouble, reply to the ml, or find us in #gentoo-haskell at freenode. Cheers, Lennart Kolmodin -- using his Gentoo Linux Developer hat [1] http://code.haskell.org/gentoo/gentoo-haskell/ [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml