I am trying to install ghc-5.02 on an NFS partition for use with RedHad 7.1. The make in-place scheme with the binary tar balls (as supplied for RedHat 6.2) work very well for this. Does anyone know of such a tar ball for RedHat 7.1 or should I be building from source, or can I adapt the RPM packages to put things where I want them?
To answer my own question, the only thing that seems to be stopping from using the RedHat-6.2 distribution on a RedHat 7.1 machine is libreadline.so, it have been changed from .so.3 to .so.4. However, if I create a symbolic link from one to the other (as suggested by the GHC Mini FAQ for SUSE systems) then it appears to work fine. In summary to get the ghc-5.00.2 binary tar ball to work on a RedHat 7.1 system create a symbolic link from libreadline.so.3, in a directory on $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4 and it all seems to work fine. How easy would it be to use libreadline.a in making up the GHC distribution? (GHC implementers: ghc is a very fine system; thanks.) Chris