Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building a Haskell project which depends on an old version of base

2012-02-14 Thread Antoine Latter
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Rogan Creswick wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Steven J. Murdoch > wrote: >> $ ghc-pkg list base >> /Users/ghc6/homebrew/Cellar/ghc/6.12.3/lib/ghc/package.conf.d >>   base-3.0.3.2 >>   base-4.2.0.2 > > I'm a bit fuzzy on the details when it comes to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building a Haskell project which depends on an old version of base

2012-02-14 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Steven J. Murdoch wrote: > $ ghc-pkg list base > /Users/ghc6/homebrew/Cellar/ghc/6.12.3/lib/ghc/package.conf.d >   base-3.0.3.2 >   base-4.2.0.2 I'm a bit fuzzy on the details when it comes to the core packages that are distributed with ghc, but my understanding

[Haskell-cafe] Building a Haskell project which depends on an old version of base

2012-02-14 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
I'm trying to build a Haskell project[1] which appears to be dependent on an function in a old version of base (GHC.Handle.fillReadBuffer). I've downgraded to Haskell platform 2010.2.0.0 which comes with GHC 6.12.3 (installed by homebrew on MacOS X 10.6.8), and ghc-pkg appears to indicate the backw