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On 10/16/10 12:07 , Ketil Malde wrote:
> Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes:
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>>> Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do
>>> about this bootstrapping problem?
>
>> I thought the answer to that was supposed to be "bug you
Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes:
>> Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do
>> about this bootstrapping problem?
> I thought the answer to that was supposed to be "bug your distribution to
> package the Platform".
In my case, it's more like bug the IT department to
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On 10/15/10 11:26 , Don Stewart wrote:
> Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually. What can we do
> about this bootstrapping problem?
I thought the answer to that was supposed to be "bug your distribution to
package the Platform".
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Ketil Malde wrote:
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> Uh, AFAIC, it's only a documentation bug - the GHC page seems to say
> that GHC comes with HP, the HP page tells to go get GHC first. I'd just
> change it to something like:
>
> GHC: Click here to download... then go see Haskell Platform fo
Don Stewart writes:
> Linux users don't have easy binary installers, usually.
Speaking about which - this is made a lot more difficult than it need be
due to the way libc doesn't work with statically linked executables.
Basically, it seems to manually load hardwired dynamic libraries for
various
Don Stewart writes:
>> First, I go to http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_3.html,
>> which kindly suggests to get the Haskell Platform instead.
>> Then, at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html, I'm told that I
>> first need GHC, and pointed back to the GHC download page.
> Linu
ketil:
>
> I needed GHC on a new machine, and went to download a binary tarball.
>
> First, I go to http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_3.html,
> which kindly suggests to get the Haskell Platform instead.
>
> Then, at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html, I'm told that I
> first
I needed GHC on a new machine, and went to download a binary tarball.
First, I go to http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_3.html,
which kindly suggests to get the Haskell Platform instead.
Then, at http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html, I'm told that I
first need GHC, and pointed
