On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:52:01AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:

frode k writes:

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Installation of GHC 7.0.2 failed: # ./configure --prefix=/usr/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.0/ checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.9' not found (required by utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd) utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd) configure: error: cannot determine current directory

I eventually gave up on this, too. Shame, I'd really like to use a newer GHC - did anybody succeed in compiling it on Red Hat or CentOS?

-k

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).

*** 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. *** HASKELL PLATFORM

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]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- collect2: ld terminated with signal 15 // PROBLEM SOLVED ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** HASKELL PLATFORM 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 *** CABAL [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Setup.lhs, Setup.o ) Linking Setup ... collect2: ld terminated with signal 15 [Terminated] Error during cabal-install bootstrap: Compiling the Setup script failed ****************************************************************************** UPDATE // collect2: ld problem solved : caused by lack of RAM ****************************************************************************** It seems like the problems described above was caused by the system running out of memory. Initially I had only 512 MB of RAM on my server, but after an upgrade to 2 GB RAM the installation went fine without any problems at all. I realised this running "top" and seeing all the memory being consumed by GHC. I ran into a couple of new problems trying to install the Platform, so I have not fully succeeded yet, but I am a lot closer... (Note: I also installed GCC 4.4 (as mentioned by Mr Peterson) before I retried installing Cabal and the Haskell Platform , but I do not think that affected the build / compile process at all, since GHC and not GCC is used here. And GCC 4.4 is also installed next to 4.1 that presumably would be used by default (or am I wrong about this?)) [k]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Ketil Malde wrote:

I got gcc44 (RHEL package) installed, but the suggested (by ./configure --help) "./configure CC=gcc44" doesn't seem to do anything, this seems to be a documentation bug.

The command should be "-with-gcc". I've used the following command to configure the installation: ./configure --prefix=/usr/haskell/2011.2.0.0/ --with-gcc=/usr/bin/gcc44 I've at this stage also finally managed to install GHC 7.0.2. However when I downloaded and tried to install the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.0 I ran into more problems. It seems like this happen when installing Cabal / transformers. I get the error message (full output further down): Implicit import declaration: Could not find module `Prelude': Perhaps you haven't installed the profiling libraries for package `base'? Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. I've searched but so far haven't found any solution to this issue. Any idea how to solve this? How can I install profiling libraries for package 'base'? [k] ----- entire output ----- # make scripts/build.sh ************************************************** Scanning system for any installed Haskell Platform components... Found:None. New packages to install: None! All done. ************************************************** Building transformers-0.2.2.0 "/usr/haskell/2011.2.0.0/bin//ghc" "--make" "Setup" "-o" "Setup" "-package" "Cabal-1.10.1.0" [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Setup.hs, Setup.o ) Linking Setup ... "./Setup" "configure" "--package-db=../../packages/package.conf.inplace" "--prefix=/usr/haskell/2011.2.0.0" "--with-compiler=/usr/haskell/2011.2.0.0/bin//ghc" "--with-hc-pkg=/usr/haskell/2011.2.0.0/bin//ghc-pkg" "--with-hsc2hs=/usr/haskell/2011.2.0.0/bin//hsc2hs" "--enable-library-profiling" "--ghc-pkg-option=--package-conf=../../packages/package.conf.inplace" Configuring transformers-0.2.2.0... "./Setup" "build" Preprocessing library transformers-0.2.2.0... Building transformers-0.2.2.0... [ 1 of 21] Compiling Data.Functor.Product ( Data/Functor/Product.hs, dist/build/Data/Functor/Product.o ) [ 2 of 21] Compiling Data.Functor.Constant ( Data/Functor/Constant.hs, dist/build/Data/Functor/Constant.o ) [ 3 of 21] Compiling Data.Functor.Compose ( Data/Functor/Compose.hs, dist/build/Data/Functor/Compose.o ) [ 4 of 21] Compiling Data.Functor.Identity ( Data/Functor/Identity.hs, dist/build/Data/Functor/Identity.o ) [ 5 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Class ( Control/Monad/Trans/Class.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Class.o ) [ 6 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.IO.Class ( Control/Monad/IO/Class.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/IO/Class.o ) [ 7 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Cont ( Control/Monad/Trans/Cont.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Cont.o ) [ 8 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Error ( Control/Monad/Trans/Error.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Error.o ) [ 9 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Identity ( Control/Monad/Trans/Identity.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Identity.o ) [10 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.List ( Control/Monad/Trans/List.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/List.o ) [11 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Maybe ( Control/Monad/Trans/Maybe.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Maybe.o ) [12 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Reader ( Control/Monad/Trans/Reader.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Reader.o ) [13 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.RWS.Lazy ( Control/Monad/Trans/RWS/Lazy.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/RWS/Lazy.o ) [14 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.RWS ( Control/Monad/Trans/RWS.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/RWS.o ) [15 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.RWS.Strict ( Control/Monad/Trans/RWS/Strict.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/RWS/Strict.o ) [16 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.State.Lazy ( Control/Monad/Trans/State/Lazy.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/State/Lazy.o ) [17 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.State ( Control/Monad/Trans/State.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/State.o ) [18 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.State.Strict ( Control/Monad/Trans/State/Strict.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/State/Strict.o ) [19 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Lazy ( Control/Monad/Trans/Writer/Lazy.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Writer/Lazy.o ) [20 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Writer ( Control/Monad/Trans/Writer.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Writer.o ) [21 of 21] Compiling Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Strict ( Control/Monad/Trans/Writer/Strict.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Trans/Writer/Strict.o ) Implicit import declaration: Could not find module `Prelude': Perhaps you haven't installed the profiling libraries for package `base'? Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. Error: Building the transformers-0.2.2.0 package failed make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2

Thanks a lot for all assistance and help. I'm now as well finally running GHC 7.0.2. I spent some time documenting all the steps I made here: http://klevstul.posterous.com/haskell-ghc-702-on-centos-55 Cheers, Frode [k]

I have 7.0.2 building from source, using a binary version of GHC 6.12.3, and the GCC 4.4 (gcc44 package from CentOS). GCC 4.1(gcc package) that ships with CentOS 5.5. gave me the "relocation error" already detailed at the bottom of http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Troubleshooting. It would be really neat to have CentOS supported out of the gate, rather than having to install a bootstrapping ghc, to then compile latest ghc, to finally compile latest haskell-platform. Does anyone know of a trusted third-party repo that packages ghc or even better, the haskell-platform for CentOS? I found (http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/nogin-random-x86_64/) but I know nothing about who is packaging them. cheers, -kirk On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Tristan Ravitch wrote:

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

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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.

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