On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 11:53 +0800, Wang, Chunye (NSN - CN/Beijing) wrote:
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