On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 21:21 -0800, Christopher Howard 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.
Silly question, but have you tried *building GHC from source*? Building GHC is non-trivial, but basically boils down to having an existing ghc that runs enough to bootstrap, right? So you can take a (quite old, sure, no problem) ghc out of the RHEL 5 repositories and use that to build a current GHC 7.6 say. That _would_ be linked against whatever library stack you have present, and you should be ok from there. AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie http://www.andrewcowie.com/ +61 4 1079 6725