[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 10:01:06PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>> Hello Andrew,
>>
>> Monday, July 9, 2007, 12:36:25 AM, you wrote:
>>   
>>> OK. So that's just the GHC binary itself, right?
>>>     
>>
>> it's INSTALLER
>>   
>
> Ah. That explains the size then...
>
> Is it safe to install two versions of GHC at once? :-.

Certainly.  I have no less than twelve.

stefan at stefans:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/ghc-6* /usr/local/bin/ghc-6*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   30 2007-05-26 08:50 /usr/bin/ghc-6.6.1 -> ../lib/ghc-6.6.1/bin/ghc-6.6.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 385 2006-12-24 13:43 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.4.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 145 2007-01-13 16:52 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 172 2007-02-13 18:20 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070213
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 172 2007-02-24 01:29 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070223
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 172 2007-03-25 19:53 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070323
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 172 2007-04-01 14:04 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070402
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 172 2007-04-14 10:35 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070413
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 172 2007-05-02 18:46 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070502
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 172 2007-05-19 16:01 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070518
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 172 2007-06-02 23:41 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070601
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 144 2007-06-12 20:20 /usr/local/bin/ghc-6.7.20070612

The worst problem that comes of this is a slow loss of disk space, but
I don't think I'll ever be able to fill this 80G disk :) 

Stefan
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