Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation of Haskell Platform on CentOS 5.5

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:23:10AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:

Tristan Ravitch writes:

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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.

Now that you mention it, I did have to switch to a newer gcc for the x86_64 build. I ended up using 4.5. That part is annoying; I wasn't able to coax the default 4.1.2+patches into generating correct position-independent code either.