Debian stable not supported?

2008-09-21 Thread Yitzchak Gale
The Debian ghc6 package for the stable distribution is currently back at GHC 6.6 - not surprising given the way stable works at Debian. There is currently no backport of a more recent GHC to Debian stable. I need GHC 6.8 for a project to run on a production server. That means it will be running De

Re: GHC 6.8.3's source is unusable?

2008-09-21 Thread Magicloud
I see So 6.8.3 is not portable So in my company-customed-linux box, ghc is nothing to me? Any way I can use it? Austin Seipp wrote: Excerpts from Magicloud Magiclouds's message of Sun Sep 21 21:19:00 -0500 2008: Hi, I want to compile ghc on my office box, which does not have any

Re: GHC 6.8.3's source is unusable?

2008-09-21 Thread Austin Seipp
Excerpts from Magicloud Magiclouds's message of Sun Sep 21 21:19:00 -0500 2008: > Hi, > I want to compile ghc on my office box, which does not have any > binary ghc exist. First, porting with an unregistered build is currently supported from GHC 6.4 to GHC 6.6 - it does not work in 6.8 nor wi

GHC 6.8.3's source is unusable?

2008-09-21 Thread Magicloud
Hi, I want to compile ghc on my office box, which does not have any binary ghc exist. So I followed http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting, "Porting GHC to a new platform" section. Well, this was what I got: (On target) $ ./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-u

ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 beta

2008-09-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
We are pleased to announce that the GHC 6.10.0.20080921 snapshot is a beta release of GHC 6.10.1. You can download snapshots from here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ Right now we have the source bundles: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.10.0.20080921-src.tar