[Haskell-cafe] haskell platform question

[Don Stewart]

Oh, sorry, missed the first line. Building against GHC snapshots isn't
supported.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It should build. If it doesn't, please report a bug.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Tim Docker <twd2 at dockerz.net> wrote:
>> I'd like to build the haskell platform against a recent GHC snapshot, for
>> testing purposes.
>>
>> I see that I can download the source for the platform from:
>>
>>
>> http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz
>>
>> with instructions:
>>
>>    http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/haskell-platform.xhtml
>>
>> However when I tried this some months ago, I found that some of the packages
>> in the above source fail to build due to recent ghc changes (eg it's
>> stricter handling of bang patterns).
>>
>> Is there a more recent "beta" snapshot of the platform? Or a darcs/git repo
>> somewhere? I imagine wanting to build the platform against bleeding edge ghc
>> would be a pretty common desire.
>>
>> Tim
>>
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