Glasgow Haskell on different versions of Linux

[Christian Maeder]

I wrote:
>> since version 6.2 we have 2 binary distributions for (generic) linux:
>> for glibc 2.2 and glibc 2.3
> 
> Maybe this is no longer necessary. I've produced an installation (under 
> glibc 2.2) that runs under glibc 2.2 and glibc 2.3.

I've now also successfully installed ghc-6.2.1 from source under glibc 
2.3 that works under glibc 2.2, too.

> As also Volker Stolz suggested I've changed, after calling ./configure, 
> a line in "mk/config.h" from
> 
> #define HAVE_CTYPE_H 1
> 
> to
> 
> /* #undef HAVE_CTYPE_H */
> 
> 
> I'll try the same trick under glibc 2.3 later.

Yes, that basically did it. Thus the glibc 2.3 version (without ctype.h) 
should be sufficient as binary distribution in the future.

Christian