Stack does not support yet Ubuntu 16.10 #2542
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Does anyone know what's involved in building a GHC bindist that works on Ubuntu 16.10? Is it just a matter of building the bindist on Ubuntu 16.10? |
For 7.10.3 one could look at the Ubuntu patches IIUC (in the worst case). Or you could ping HVR if you think it's appropriate (I didn't just to avoid spamming notifications). |
I looked at http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/haskell/ghc and its changelog, and the relevant patches seem to be
Relevant code in debian/rules:
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After some trial-and-error, it turns out that the configure options GHC was built with don't matter for this case, only the ones that it was installed with (which affect the runtime settings in |
@hvr reported this in https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-community/2016-August/000136.html. Let me quote:
While that distro is in beta, it'd be good to address the trouble before that Ubuntu is released (which should be on October 13th).
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