No luck installing on SuSE 7.1

[William Chesters]

William Chesters writes:
 >    However the toy exe I build terminates with an "Illegal
 > instruction" signal (whether or not I use -via-C), and the same quite
 > quickly happens to ghci if I play around.  If I copy the toy exe onto
 > a Mandrake (~ RedHat) 6.0 machine I get the same.  (If I copy it onto
 > an RH5 machine I get segfault instead.)

Although, I just copied it onto an RH5.2 machine, as opposed to 5.1,
and it worked.  So the situation is,

SuSE 7.1 with readline 3 added, Linux 2.4.0, AMD K6-2:

  -- compiler runs, up to a point
  -- toy compiled executable gives SIGILL

Mandrake 6.0 (readline 3), Linux 2.2, AMD K6-2:

  -- toy compiled executable gives SIGILL

RedHat 5.2 (readline 3), Linux 2.2, Intel Pentium II

  -- toy compiled executable runs

RedHat 5.1 (readline 3), Linux 2.0, Intel Pentium

  -- toy compiled executable gives SIGSEGV