On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:31 +0800, Agent Zhang wrote:
Halo~
I ran into the following error while trying to run a binary generated by GHC 6.8.x on our production machines with a not-so-recent linux installed (kernel 2.6.9).
$ ./restyscript restyscript: timer_create: Invalid argument
You know we ran into this recently while trying to set up the new hoogle beta on haskell.org itself. (You may be surprised to know that haskell.org does not have ghc installed on it.)
So I decided to build a GHC 6.8.3 from source on that old system using GHC 6.4.2. Fortunately, the binary GHC 6.4.2 from haskell.org does work there. The newly-built GHC solves all the problem. No floating-point exception nor invalid argument for timer_create. I've put my binary distribution on my site here:
That may well be useful to people. Thanks for doing the work. Duncan