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

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 00:41 +0200, Thomas Davie wrote:

> > 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.

Currently, user installs are the default on all platforms except
Windows.

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

It should work fine, you'll need to give more details.

Duncan