No luck installing on SuSE 7.1

Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri May 11 01:52:42 EDT 2001


William Chesters <williamc at paneris.org> wrote,

> Simon Marlow writes:
>  > Hi William,
>  > 
>  > It's not your day, is it? :)  You seem to have tripped over just about
>  > all the nasty bugs in 5.00.
> 
> Think so, but Ralf Hinze helped me out by sending me RPMs he's made
> for SuSE 7.1, from Manuel's SRPM (whether hacked I don't know---I
> didn't try Manuel's SRPM because it didn't look big enough to have the
> .hc's in!).

They don't have the `.hc's, but Ralf had a previous version
of GHC installed with which he could compile from the source
rpm (which has all the Haskell source in it).

> Ralf's ghc compiles my toy program fine and it runs to completion.
> So, many thanks to him!  I hope to find time to play around some more
> at the weekend.

Cool.

Manuel




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