Hi Brandon, Appreciate your reply. some more info. I just confirmed that gmp-devel is installed too. yum message shows "Package gmp-devel-4.3.1-7.el6_2.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version". I am attaching the config.log in the email. Thanks in advance! -Manish On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Manish Trivedi wrote:

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[root@qa-engine1 haskell-platform-2012.2.0.0]# yum install gmp

This is just the runtime library; you will also need the compile/link-time library provided by gmp-devel. That said, the contents of the config.log mentioned in the error message would be helpful.

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Hi Manish, Are you aware of the CentOS distro I am maintaining at justhub.org /download? Even if you want to build your own installations it will probably be useful for getting you going. (It should soon appear on the Haskell Platform Linux page - or at least we have a ticket for it!) Chris

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:57:34 +0200, Manish Trivedi wrote:

Thank you Chris! extremely delighted. worked like a charm. I wish your distro appear on haskell wiki. very helpful.

I just added this to the Linux page[0]. Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl [0] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GNU/Linux#RHEL.2C_CentOS.2C_Scientific_Li... -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html Haskell programming --

Quoting Chris Dornan :

Hi Manish,

Are you aware of the CentOS distro I am maintaining at justhub.org /download? Even if you want to build your own installations it will probably be useful for getting you going.

Great and spot on time for me. I'm trying to install Snap on my Centos-6.0 ISP (bluehost.com) which has shell but not root access and no OpenGL or GLUT. HP has (IMHO wrongly) included OpenGL and GLUT so I've cut the gl and glut sections from the HP configure script and platform.packages list with a variety of build failures so far. Previously I've been able to install and use ghc and HP in ~/ without problems. Is there any reason why this couldn't be done with your justhub package? As I've never tried this brute surgery on such a magnus opus before I'm not sure this is at all feasible? I hope this isn't too off topic. Cheers

(It should soon appear on the Haskell Platform Linux page - or at least we have a ticket for it!)

Chris

Quoting Chris Dornan :

Hi Jim,

Thanks for such a quick response.

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Previously I've been able to install and use ghc and HP in ~/ without problems. Is there any reason why this couldn't be done with your justhub package?

As I've never tried this brute surgery on such a magnus opus before I'm not sure this is at all feasible?

I wouldn't recommend trying to install the justhub package in user-space.

Starting from the GHC bindists and the sources for everything else (platform and hub wrapper) you can relocate everything of course. In theory I believe it would also be possible to make all the RPMs relocatable, but because of all of the moving parts it's not so easy in practice.

Sure. Too scary for me. However sandboxing everything ghc in user space seems to me a good idea at the moment.

It is on my list of things to do -- obviously the more requests I get the higher it will go on the priority list, and the number of requests has now just doubled, to two (but I will bet there are more -- I take it seriously).

BTW my ISP doesn't allow the use of yum. I can build a Snap server by manually installing the needed deps from HP but it silently crashes every couple of hours and I failed to build it with library-profiling. I'd like to get Snap working on this ISP as it's for a voluntary environmental science group and previous Snap installations on my home machine have seemingly worked perfectly. Cheers

Chris