[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

[Thomas Davie]

On 19 Apr 2009, at 00:31, Antoine Latter wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Thomas Davie <tom.davie at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> This looks like the same error I got – see bug report 1 in the bug  
>> database
>> – the configure script reports that you have uuagc even if you  
>> don't – cabal
>> install it, reconfigure, and you should be on your way.
>>
>> Second thing to watch for – it depends on fgl, but this isn't  
>> caught by the
>> configure script.
>>
>
> Apparently a "user" install of uuagc and fgl isn't good enough.  Fun  
> to know.

I've found user installs don't work at all on OS X, various people in  
#haskell were rather surprised to discover this, so apparently it's  
not the default behavior on other platforms.

It really rather makes "cabal install" rather odd – because it doesn't  
actually install anything you can use without providing extra options!

Bob