[darcs-devel] Which version of ghc?

will at glozer.net will at glozer.net
Fri Jan 20 09:14:56 PST 2006


Hi Edwin,

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:36:21 +0000, "Edwin Thomson"
<edwin.thomson at businesswebsoftware.com> said:
> 
> I've been using ghc 6.4.1 (the latest official release) to compile 
> darcs, but because of the crashing-on-large-record thing I'd like to use 
> some version of 6.4.2. For preference, I'd like to use the same version 
> as the official darcs Windows binaries (and/or the Windows nightly 
> builds) use, but I don't know what that is.  Is there a specific build 
> of ghc that gets used, or is it just 'the latest ghc nightly build', or 
> such?

I'm currently using my own build of the ghc-6-4-branch which was
checked out on 2005-12-03.  I would expect one of the newer builds
to work just as well.

Regards,
Will




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