I've recently built 6.10.1 on fairly archaic RHEL servers, both 64 and 32 bit, and the incantation that worked most seamlessly for me was to grab a really old binary release (in my case 6.2 worked) that installs without intervention, and then build up to the latest version (6.10.1) in steps -- I built 6.6 with 6.2, then 6.10.1 with 6.6, and it all worked without a problem. Of course, I'd try 6.6/binary first, but if that doesn't work, all is not lost, older binary releases may still work, and you can then bootstrap from those.
Rob
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From: "Wang, Chunye (NSN - CN/Beijing)"
I tried to install the ghc 6.8.0 last year but failed for some reason.
Now I decide to do it again, because I'd like to try some examples in <<Real World Haskell>> Now I remember why I try to install it from source code, because the binary version has the following problem.
I guess ``timer_create '' is failed because of library confliction.
I suggest you use the binary for ghc-6.8.2 (not 6.8.3) or earlier because those were built on an old Red Hat 9 server and are thus compatible with older versions of glibc and the Linux kernel. If you really need ghc-6.10 (you probably do not if you're just trying examples from the Real World Haskell book) then you can build ghc-6.10.x from source once you have the ghc-6.8.2 binary installed. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe