Tuncer: The LD_PRELOAD trick and the patchelf magic solved the problem nicely..

I'd still prefer if a SuSE binary distro was available from the downloads page, for the good of the community. When I tried to build from source, I was getting all sorts of error messages even from the configure step; so I gave up fairly quickly. If it was a machine I had root access to then I'd have given it more time; but with only user-level access, I didn't pursue anything further.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Levent Erkok wrote:
> Hello all,

[...]

> (Yes, I tried building from the source; but in the corporate
> environment with so many things controlled, that did not go very
> far.)

What exactly failed? Have you tried using a same-distro-version SuSE
chroot/container, where you install the SuSE-packaged GHC, for
building 7.10.2? This is of course assuming that the autoconf check
works.