ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

[Arie Peterson]

On Wednesday 05 February 2014 15:53:41 Karel Gardas wrote:

> Tried, on my ubuntu 12.04.02, but it fails miserably. Modern GHC
> requires alex 3.1 and cabal alex fails with (due to QuickCheck template
> haskell dependency):
> 
> […]
> 
> So, well, Catch-22?

You can avoid this by installing QuickCheck without template haskell parts:

$ cabal install -f -templateHaskell QuickCheck

(syntax could be off).


Regards,

Arie