I don't know whether I could have gotten away with it but was happy to go
through all the intermediate stages: it seemed the safer bet.
The building of a complete GHC bundle from source is such a major
undertaking that I really didn't want to build it with an old compiler and
lose all of the testing that goes into each GHC release.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [mailto:ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 April 2010 12:03 AM
To: Chris Dornan
Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] building Haskell Platform for CentOS 5.2 with a
/tmp mounted noexec
"Chris Dornan"
. Keep trying generic binary Linux ghc packages until one that works is found (in this case ghc-6.8.3);
. With ghc-6.8.3 installed, download the src tar ball for the next ghc release (6.10.1) and build and install that;
I wonder, could you have gone straight from 6.8.3 to 6.12.1 (or if not that, since 6.10.1 built then presumably 6.10.4 probably would have as well). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com