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

[Lennart Augustsson]

I've learnt (the hard way) not to trust user installs at all.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Thomas Davie <tom.davie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
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