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Reasons against a switch from Windows XP to Ubuntu 9.10

Some weeks ago I switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu 9.10. Entirely. Without a safety net. It was a big step for me.
All-in-all I’m happy to have made Ubuntu my main system. However, there are some things that bother me here and there.

How to compile Haskell’s network library on Windows

The normal way to recompile a Haskell library would be to:

download the Cabal source package e.g. from HackageDB
unpack it in a directory
locate the directory in the console
use “cabal install –reinstall” and watch the compiling process

For the network-2.2.1.3 package I couldn’t use this approach because I always got the message that “getnameinfo” couldn’t be found.