I recently built a binary installer for GHC 7.6.3 to run on CentOS 5.9, which should be compatible with RHEL 5. It uses glibc 2.5, at least. I don't have a good place to host it long-term, but would be happy to make it available to you (or anyone else who's interested).

Aaron

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:

Hi. I've got this work situation where I've got to do all my work on
/ancient/ RHEL5 systems, with funky software configurations, and no root
privileges. I wanted to install GHC in my local account, but the gnu
libc version is so old (2.5!) that I can't even get the binary packages
to install.

I've had success installing some other simple functional languages (like
CLISP) on these same systems, so I was wondering if there was perhaps
another language very similar to Haskell (but presumably simpler) with a
super portable compiler easily built from source, which I could try.

I'll admit -- I haven't tried the HUGS compiler for Haskell. The quick
description didn't make it sound much more portable than GHC, but I
guess I could try it if I heard some good reasons to think it would be
more portable.

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