[Haskell-cafe] Problem Installing ad (Automatic Differentiation) Package

[Dominic Steinitz]

Hi,

I was trying to install ad (Automatic Differentiation) but got the 
following error. I guess the answer is to upgrade my ghc (perhaps 
someone could confirm) but I am using the Haskell Platform and would 
rather stick with that. I see from http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ 
that the next release is due out in May. Will that be early May? in 
which case I may well wait a week or will it be late May? in which case 
I might bite the bullet and upgrade my ghc.

Thanks, Dominic

Building template-haskell-2.7.0.0...
[1 of 7] Compiling Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax.Internals ( 
Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax/Internals.hs, 
dist/build/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax/Internals.o )
[2 of 7] Compiling Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax ( 
Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.hs, dist/build/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.o )
[3 of 7] Compiling Language.Haskell.TH.PprLib ( 
Language/Haskell/TH/PprLib.hs, dist/build/Language/Haskell/TH/PprLib.o )

Language/Haskell/TH/PprLib.hs:55:10:
     Illegal instance declaration for `Show Doc'
       (All instance types must be of the form (T t1 ... tn)
        where T is not a synonym.
        Use -XTypeSynonymInstances if you want to disable this.)
     In the instance declaration for `Show Doc'
Updating documentation index /Users/Test/Library/Haskell/doc/index.html
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
ad-1.3.0.1 depends on template-haskell-2.7.0.0 which failed to install.
template-haskell-2.7.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception 
was:
ExitFailure 1

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.0.3