Small update to the Haskell Platfrom 2014.2.0.0 release:
We have new Release Candidate 3 versions of the source tarball... and a new generic-linux bindist of the platform!
Windows and OS X users: There are no RC3 versions - as the RC2 versions seem to be holding up fine!
General
- hptool (and hence ./platform.sh script) take a new --prefix parameter that is used for generic (non-OS X, non-Windows) builds: It sets the root under which haskell installations are located. Defaults to /usr/local/haskell. Everything will be placed in a directory named ghc-7.8.3-<arch> under this prefix.
- activate-hs script for default Posix-like builds
- small fixes to allow bootstrapping the platform with GHC 7.4
- README and LICENSE updated
Source Tarball
- all missing pieces now present
- build platfrom from source tarball verified
Generic Linux Binary Dist
- Built from the GHC's generic Linux bindist for Deb 7 style systems
- Complete tarball: this is all you need to install Haskell on a compatible system
- Built on Ubuntu 12.04LTS
- Tested on Ubuntu 14
- my system needed a symlink from libgmp.so to libgmp.so.10 - this seems to be an issue with the GHC bindist built components
To install this:
cd /
sudo tar xvf ~/haskell-platform-2014.2.0.0-unknown-linux-x86_64-RC3.tar.gz
sudo /usr/local/haskell/ghc-7.8.3-x8_64/bin/activate-hs
This will finish the package registration, and install symlinks from /usr/local/bin for all the standard haskell command line tools.
— Mark
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