[darcs-users] "screened" now fails to build on Ubuntu 10.04 due to apparent requirement of GHC 7.
Ganesh Sittampalam
ganesh at earth.li
Tue Oct 2 06:30:31 UTC 2012
Hi Mark,
On 01/10/2012 18:54, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> I'm interested to try out the latest changes from "screened", but it
> appears that the version requirements for GHC have changed.
>
> Ubuntu 10.04 (supported until April 2015) has only 6.12, so I get this:
>
> setup: The program ghc version >=7.0 && <7.6 is required but the
> version found
Yeah, this is deliberate:
http://darcs.net/Development/Policy#ghc-versions - I'm fairly sure that
we've also now made code changes that won't work on GHC 6.12.
> What's the recommendation for Ubuntu 10.04 users who would like to use
> the latest darcs?
5 years is a long time in GHC terms!
I'd suggest downloading a binary distribution of a more recent GHC from
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download, and use that to build darcs.
To install the binary, unpack it somewhere, ./configure
--prefix=/some/where ; make install
Then point your PATH at /some/where/bin, and build darcs.
Cheers,
Ganesh
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