*** GHC 7

> The ghc7 binaries are compiled against a newer version of glibc than
> is available on RHEL/CentOS.  It works fine if you compile ghc7 from
> source yourself (you can use 6.12 for that).

| Did it?  I tried to do that, but I got errors about needing -fPIC.  I
| tried to mess with CFLAGS, but couldn't make it work out.  According to
| somebody on #haskell (I apologize for forgetting whom), the problem was
| really a too old GCC version.

It's a shame it's so hard to setup Haskell on CentOS. I guess compiling GHC 7 from source takes a lot of time (?). It would be nice to know if anyone at all has managed.

> Building 
> "/usr/haskell-platform-2010.2.0.0/bin/ghc" "--make" "Setup" "-o" "Setup" 
> "-package" "Cabal-1.8.0.6" 
> Linking Setup ... 
> collect2: ld terminated with signal 15 [Terminated] 

> Error: 
> Compiling the Setup script failed 
> make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2 

Does anyone know why the Haskell Platform won't install though? 2010.2.0.0 should work with GHC 6.12. The "collect2: ld" error message above gives no meaning to me. Has anyone succeeded installing the Haskell Platform on CentOS 5.5?

[k]