Here's the steps I had to go go to get ghc7.0 working on RHEL 5.6:

http://twdkz.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/installing-ghc-7-0-3-and-the-haskell-platform-on-rhel-5-6/

I expect that the same steps will work for ghc 7.4.  I need to use a more recent version of gcc that than supplied with RHEL5.6.

Tim

On 27/06/2012, at 5:33 PM, Johannes Waldmann wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I need a recent ghc on a not-so-recent (?) CentOS.
>
> The ghc binary package (7.2 or 7.4) does not work
> because of a mismatch in the libc version.
>
> ghc-7.0 is working but when I use it to compile 7.4,
> it breaks with some linker error (relocation R_X86_64_PC32 ...)
> it also suggests "recompile with -fPIC" but I don't see how.
>
> (In this particular case, I absolutely cannot change/update the OS.)
>
> Thanks, J.W.
>
>
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