18 Jun
2003
18 Jun
'03
12:25 p.m.
Is this a correct way to detect versions needed for the GHC installation?
more /etc/redhat-release --> Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
ls /lib/libc* --> /lib/libc-2.2.5.so ...
The binary distribution (not the RPM) is basically just a tarball. It does no checking that you have the right versions of things, so it is a "use at your own risk". The download instructions do say that it is suitable for RedHat 7.2, though, so you might be ok with 7.3. If you want to build from source, you can use the "nosrc" RPM. This is just like the source RPM, except that the source isn't included. To build it, you need to download the source too (your sysadmin should know how to do this). Cheers, Simon