<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Adrian May <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adrian.alexander.may@gmail.com" target="_blank">adrian.alexander.may@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><br></div></div><div>Also, the Haskell Platform ./configure step checks which version of GHC you have installed, and requires you to pass the option <span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px">--enable-</span><em style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px">unsupported</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px">-</span><em style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px">ghc</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px">-version in order to compile it with anything other than GHC 7.4.2.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#444444" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:16px">Did you try an unsupported version? And now you're complaining?</span></font> </div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is getting into minutia now, but yes I tried the unsupported flag and as I already explained it barfed about the prelude. </div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div style>How is it minutia that you expect an unsupported version of GHC to work?</div><div style><br></div><div style>Yes, I try it out sometimes. And if it works, great. If not, too bad, I'll wait until the next Haskell Platform. I don't whine about it in public.</div>
<div style> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">So I installed 7.4.2 from source but that confused cabal because my attempt to uninstall the ubuntu package with 7.4.1 in had failed with dependency-hell. Figuring out why (or even that) my packages weren't being seen was the puzzle I was referring to. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>So the complaint is about Ubuntu?</div><div style> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div class="gmail_extra">The point is that we wouldn't have to be talking about this at all if people didn't move the furniture around all the time. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>That's not a very good point. It sounds as though you're the one who moved furniture around, considering that you managed to mix up Ubuntu's GHC package with your hand-built ones.</div>
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