Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation of Haskell Platform on CentOS 5.5

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:52:01AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:

frode k writes:

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Installation of GHC 7.0.2 failed: # ./configure --prefix=/usr/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.0/ checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.9' not found (required by utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd) utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd) configure: error: cannot determine current directory

I eventually gave up on this, too. Shame, I'd really like to use a newer GHC - did anybody succeed in compiling it on Red Hat or CentOS?

-k

The ghc7 binaries are compiled against a newer version of glibc than is available on RHEL/CentOS. It works fine if you compile ghc7 from source yourself (you can use 6.12 for that).