28 Apr
2013
28 Apr
'13
7:23 a.m.
On 27/04/13 15:21, 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.
You can use GHC on RHEL 5 machines, it's just very tedious to set up. A blog post I wrote a while ago describes the process: http://twdkz.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/installing-ghc-7-0-3-and-the-haskell-p... I still use this, though now I have an extra step to build build GHC 7.4.2 atop of 7.0.3. Tim