Re: Failure compiling ghc-mtl with ghc-7.8.{2,3}

2014-07-20 Thread i hamsa
I think I found the problem. package ghc-7.8.3 requires transformers-0.3.0.0 package mtl-2.2.1 requires transformers-0.4.1.0 package exceptions-0.6.1 requires transformers-0.4.1.0 I wonder how is this ever supposed to work :( On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote: > The last tim

Failure compiling ghc-mtl with ghc-7.8.{2,3}

2014-07-20 Thread i hamsa
I was trying to upgrade to ghc-7.8 the other day, and got this compilation failure when building ghc-mtl-1.2.1.0 (see the end of the message). I'm using the haskell overlay on Gentoo Linux straight out of the box, no local cabal installations of anything. Now I was told that other people can comp