Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:02:56AM -0500, Francois Meehan wrote:
Hi all,
I need Haskell to be installed on a Red advance server 3. Could not find RPM's for it. Tried compiling for tar file, won't pass the ./configure, giving me "configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files." error.
Could someone give me some pointers on how to do this?
I was installing GHC 6.2.2 on RH AS r3 on x86 recently and the generic binary distribution for "Generic Linux with glibc 2.3" worked fine. Just download it from the website, configure, make in-place, and you have a working GHC in 5 minutes. You can use this GHC to compile another, newer versions. There is a generic binary x86/Linux glibc 2.3 version of GHC 6.4 on the website too.
This was my experience on Fedora Core 3 too. If building on RHEL3 or FC3, you will likely need to "./configure --with-gcc=gcc33" (provided you have gcc-compat installed). The latest gcc on these systems is 3.4. With 3.4, changes were made to the -traditional version of the C preprocessor that make it incompatible with the way in which many of the Haskell modules in the GHC source tree reify make/build variables as Haskell strings. Have we converged on a long-term solution for this problem? Is hscpp ready for the job? Cheers, Andy -- Andy Moran Ph. (503) 626 6616, x113 Galois Connections Inc. Fax. (503) 350 0833 12725 SW Millikan Way, Suite #290 http://www.galois.com Beaverton, OR 97005 moran@galois.com