I've been having a lot of trouble installing the binary-distro's on a SuSE machine. Unfortunately, I don't have root privileges and thus my options are rather limited.

The problem seem to boil down to the use of the function pthread_setname_np. It appears the problem was noted before, and Simon Marlow added a corresponding configure check for platforms that do not have this function. See here: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-October/006707.html

Alas, none of the binary distributions listed on https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_10_2#binaries seem to be built against a system that does not have this function. So, I was unable to install 7.10.2 successfully. 

Essentially, I'm looking for a binary distro on SuSE, or with a libc that doesn't have the GNU extensions such as pthread_setname_np; if anyone would be kind enough to put out such a binary distro, that'd really be appreciated.

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

Thanks,

-Levent.