Reproducible build recipes for GHC development VMs?

[Ryan Newton]

Oh, good question.  It was Ubuntu 12.04 LTS so I just assumed it would be
too old without checking.



On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21/08/13 15:44, Ryan Newton wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Returning to the topic discussed by Simon M. and others here:
>>
>> http://projects.haskell.org/**pipermail/haskell-platform/**
>> 2009-July/000572.html<http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2009-July/000572.html>
>>
>> This is my attempt at a script for bootstrapping a GHC-validating VM:
>>
>> http://parfunk.blogspot.com/**2013/08/zero-to-ghc-**
>> development-in-ubuntu-vm-in.**html<http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/zero-to-ghc-development-in-ubuntu-vm-in.html>
>>
>> Let me know if there's a better way, or if you'd like to help get this
>> kind of thing into an even more accessible form (Amazon AMI, Chef
>> recipe, etc).
>>
>
> I do this occasionally with an Amazon VM.  Incidentally, why did you
> download the GHC 7.6.3 tarball rather than apt-get install ghc?  The
> current GHC on Ubuntu is 7.4 which is enough to bootstrap GHC HEAD.
>
> Cheers,
>         Simon
>
>
>
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