Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-07 Thread Ketil Malde
david48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Didn't work for me : Installs fine, ghci works fine, but I get linking problems. ld complains about -lgmp Did you try installing any of these? % apt-cache search libgmp libgmp3-dev - Multiprecision arithmetic library developers tools libgmp3c2 -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-07 Thread david48
On Nov 7, 2007 9:05 AM, Ketil Malde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: david48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Didn't work for me : Installs fine, ghci works fine, but I get linking problems. ld complains about -lgmp Did you try installing any of these? % apt-cache search libgmp libgmp3-dev -

[Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Each year I give Linux a try. And usually I kick it off my harddrive after a month, and stick to Windows. However, it does get better each year, so. So which kind Linux works best for running GHC (6.8.1) and related tools? (I want to give Yi a go, I can't get it to work on Windows). Debian?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Brian P. O'Hanlon
On Nov 6, 2007 2:04 PM, Peter Verswyvelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each year I give Linux a try. And usually I kick it off my harddrive after a month, and stick to Windows. However, it does get better each year, so… I have not used Windows since 98, but I am going to make the bigoted,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread David Fox
On 11/6/07, Peter Verswyvelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So which kind Linux works best for running GHC (6.8.1) and related tools? (I want to give Yi a go, I can't get it to work on Windows). Debian? Fedora? Ubuntu? I took an informal poll at this year's Haskell Hackathon, and well over half

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
For a stupid question, it has certainly started many a flame war and heated argument, and people still disagree greatly on it, so I would The French say Le goût et les couleurs, ça ne se discute as. I guess the same goes for operating systems... not consider it such. The next question you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Seth Gordon
Peter Verswyvelen wrote: Each year I give Linux a try. And usually I kick it off my harddrive after a month, and stick to Windows. However, it does get better each year, so… So which kind Linux works best for running GHC (6.8.1) and related tools? (I want to give Yi a go, I can’t get it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Felipe Lessa
On 11/6/07, Seth Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly suspect that if you got hold of 6.8.1 packages that were built for Debian, they would also install on Ubuntu, but I haven't tried doing that yet. IME, this is very tricky to do right, even if the dependencies are the same (e.g. libc).

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Peter, Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 10:04:02 PM, you wrote: So which kind Linux works best for running GHC (6.8.1) and related tools? (I want to give Yi a go, I can▓t get it to work on Windows). Debian? Fedora? Ubuntu? you are not too original - i've asked exactly the same question

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Tim Docker
:31 AM To: 'haskell-cafe Cafe' Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell? Peter Verswyvelen wrote: Each year I give Linux a try. And usually I kick it off my harddrive after a month, and stick to Windows. However, it does get better each year, so... So which kind Linux works

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread Cale Gibbard
On 06/11/2007, Tim Docker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can confirm that ghc-6.8.1 builds from source completely without fuss on the latest ubuntu (7.10). (... though it took a couple of hours of cpu time :-) Tim I can confirm that the generic x86 binary package for 6.8.1 works on Ubuntu 7.10,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

2007-11-06 Thread david48
On Nov 7, 2007 6:14 AM, Cale Gibbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/11/2007, Tim Docker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can confirm that ghc-6.8.1 builds from source completely without fuss on the latest ubuntu (7.10). (... though it took a couple of hours of cpu time :-) Tim I can