[Haskell-cafe] GHC 7, Platform 2011.2 vs OS X 10.5, Ubuntu 11.04

[Johannes Waldmann]

> > * install ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> > * sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev zlib1g-dev libglut3-dev
> > * install from binary ghc-7.0.3-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2
> > * install from source haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz

> If you haven't trashed that VM yet, would you mind checking whether  
> lambdabot cabal-installs cleanly? (Modulo giving it things that it  
> might need such as a readline-dev package.)

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
cabal install lambdabot

gives the error (.size expression ... does not evaluate to a constant)
that was mentioned in another thread
http://hpaste.org/46401/bot_install_error