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 _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
