Re: Running GHC 7.10.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

2018-09-05 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
Thanks, that worked! Ömer Vanessa McHale , 5 Eyl 2018 Çar, 17:35 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > GHC 7.10.3 works fine for me when I use the hvr ppa > https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc > > On 09/05/2018 09:23 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use GHC 7.10.2 (the Debian

Re: Running GHC 7.10.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

2018-09-05 Thread Vanessa McHale
GHC 7.10.3 works fine for me when I use the hvr ppa https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc On 09/05/2018 09:23 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use GHC 7.10.2 (the Debian 8 bindist from haskell.org) on Ubuntu > 18.04. It's currently failing with linker errors when I

Re: Running GHC 7.10.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

2018-09-05 Thread Ryan Scott
This is likely caused by an old GHC bug that interacts poorly with newer version of binutils (I can't remember the exact bug, unfortunately). I personally use hvr's Ubuntu PPA [1] whenever installing GHC on Ubuntu. This PPA backports patches to old versions of GHC to keep them working with newer

Running GHC 7.10.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

2018-09-05 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
Hi, I'm trying to use GHC 7.10.2 (the Debian 8 bindist from haskell.org) on Ubuntu 18.04. It's currently failing with linker errors when I compile `main = return ()`: /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: