frode k
(Note: I also installed GCC 4.4 (as mentioned by Mr Peterson) before I retried installing Cabal and the Haskell Platform , but I do not think that affected the build / compile process at all, since GHC and not GCC is used here. And GCC 4.4 is also installed next to 4.1 that presumably would be used by default (or am I wrong about this?))
I got gcc44 (RHEL package) installed, but the suggested (by ./configure --help) "./configure CC=gcc44" doesn't seem to do anything, this seems to be a documentation bug. I made a link from ~/bin/gcc to the gcc44 binary, and that let the configure script find it, at least. Running 'make -j 8 install' crashed with an error, in order to make sense of the output (which tends to be hard to read when running make with parallelism), I reran, this time without -j. But then it ran to completion... Although the install process still has room for improvement, especially on archaic^Wconservative systems, I'm now the happy owner of a GHC 7.0.2 installation. Now, time to install libraries... -k PS: I guess I should report the issues I encountered on trac, but somehow the trac interface never made sense to me, and my searches always seem to result in heaps of completely unrelated stuff. -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants