Help needed on Unix Distros for 2012.2.0.0 and in general

[Mark Wright]

On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 18:04:31 -0700, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:
> *Gentoo* - the link on the linux page for HP points to a haskell wiki
> page<http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gentoo/HaskellPlatform> which
> is very out of date (references GHC 6.12). Can someone update that page?

I added dev-haskell/haskell-platform-2012.2.0.0 and its deps to portage.
I updated the above wiki page to describe how to install it.

I think this haddock 2.10.0 patch from the upstream haddock dev version is useful:

https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell/blob/master/dev-haskell/haddock/files/haddock-2.10.0-dont-crash-on-unicode-strings-in-doc-comments.patch

Thanks, Mark