[Nix-dev] yesd doesn't build with most recent ghc (zlib not finding .so in ghci/template haskell)

Andres Loeh ksnix at andres-loeh.de
Wed Jan 11 22:23:27 CET 2012


>> Here is the patch I'm using to work around this issue until GHC 7.4 is out:
>> https://github.com/coreyoconnor/nixpkgs/commit/e7ce5a8e2b9acd757ffbbdf4684a4a7e7bd99be7

GHC 7.4 is nearly out (RC1 is already in nixpkgs as ghcHEAD). I have
found little reason to use ghc-7.2 in general. But if necessary, I'd
rather patch GHC to fix the actual problem than all the packages to
work around it.

Cheers,
  Andres


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