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From: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
To: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix mailing list <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:09:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKf5CqVLYAjxe3a8Cosgd4zxLH04Q_yydZmiwyHUhud40eAWXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44acf44c19cef875af987dcda1a393b00b0d2c22.camel@gmail.com>

Hi Jesse,

> Why did ghc-random and ghc-regex-compat only work with ghc 8.4.3?

RIght now, most - if not all - ghc packages are built with ghc@8.4.3. GHC
will check the version it was compiled with and refuse to compile if there
is a mismatch between the object file and your project.
Now that I say that, I am not sure I am right. I get version mismatches
compiling xmonad, for instance, when i upgrade ghc to 8.6.
It would be really nice to get more packages up to 8.6. One solution might
be to use a channel with package definitions using your preferred version
of ghc.

One other problem I can think of is that the current ghc is 8.6 but most
ghc-* packages are built with 8.4 so most packages are incompatible with
the default.

- John

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-17 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-16 22:35 How to make sure ghc uses installed packages? Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-17  0:00 ` John Soo
2019-09-17  1:28   ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-17  5:27     ` John Soo
2019-09-17 12:36       ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-17 14:09         ` John Soo [this message]
2019-09-17 18:21           ` Timothy Sample
2019-09-17 19:33             ` John Soo

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