[Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

[david48]

On Nov 7, 2007 6:14 AM, Cale Gibbard <cgibbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2007, Tim Docker <timd at macquarie.com.au> wrote:
> > I can confirm that ghc-6.8.1 builds from source completely without fuss
> > on the latest ubuntu (7.10).
> >
> > (... though it took a couple of hours of cpu time :-)
> >
> > Tim
>
> I can confirm that the generic x86 binary package for 6.8.1 works on
> Ubuntu 7.10, provided that you use alien to install the
> readline-compat RPM which is provided on the same page.

Didn't work for me : Installs fine, ghci works fine, but I get linking
problems. ld complains about -lgmp