Unable to build 7.10.1 RC1 on Jessie

[Sven Panne]

2015-01-25 11:18 GMT+01:00 harry <voldermort at hotmail.com>:
> [..] This can be reproduced by running the following commands in the
> debian:jessie docker image:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install ncurses-dev curl gcc ghc make libgmp-dev xz-utils
> curl
> http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1-rc1/ghc-7.10.0.20141222-src.tar.xz
> | tar xJ
> cd ghc-*
> ./configure
> make
>
> Any suggestions for someone who knows nothing about c or cpp?

Perhaps there is no C++ compiler installed? Try to add "g++" to your
"apt-get install" command line.