[Haskell-cafe] Horray, a ghc bug!

[David Fox]

deb http://deb.seereason.com/ubuntu precise-seereason main
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Toby Hutton <toby at grusly.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:35:02PM -0400, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> > Andreas Abel wrote:
> > > ...I am now compiling a ghc 7.6 (will take a while).
> > > Unfortunately,  7.4.1 is the last compiler with an easy binary install
> on
> > > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...
> >
> > Hmm? We are using the binary tarball for 7.6.3 on
> > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS extensively. The only trouble we ever
> > encountered was that when installing GHC on a VM
> > with a very minimal install of 12.04 64-bit, we had to
> > temporarily install the 32-bit versions of a few basic
> > Ubuntu system packages to get the GHC installer to
> > work. After that we returned the machine to single-arch
> > 64-bit and everything is fine.
> >
> > What problems have you encountered?
>
> I think he's saying 'apt-get install ghc' will install 7.4.1.
>
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