Re: [Haskell-beginners] haskell install on low memory server?

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Rob Nikander wrote:

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... is asking for OpenGL... so I thought I would get cabal and install pieces that I want.  I downloaded the 'generic ghc binary' from here: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/linux.html and that seems to work.  But when I download the cabal-install tarball and try to run it's 'bootstrap.sh' I run out of memory.  Is there a way to tell it to use less memory?

You don't really need to compile GHC by yourself on the memory constrained machine.  First of all, you may use a binary distribution.  And second, you may compile on a different machine with more RAM.

From the error message in my previous email, it looks like it dies

But I'm not compiling GHC, am I? I downloaded the binary, and it works. I thought I was trying to install cabal, because I don't see it included in the GHC binaries. trying to compile "transformers". I also have a Micro EC2 instance. If there was a 'yum' haskell package for this "Amazon Linux" I'd use that, but I don't see one. thanks, Rob