[Haskell-cafe] Can I build and install GHC 6.10.1 withoutprevious installed ghc

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 17:53 +0800, Wang, Chunye (NSN - CN/Beijing)
wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
> 
> 
> wget
> http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.8.2/ghc-6.8.2-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2
> tar -jxvf ghc-6.8.2-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 

Ahh, x86-64. Those have always been built on Fedora Core 5.

My only suggestion is to try older ones, eg 6.6.1. That version should
still be able to built 6.10.1 from source and should still be usable for
the RWH book.

Duncan