[Haskell-cafe] Re: ghc 6.8.2 and timer_create error

[Christian Maeder]

This was discussed in
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2008-March/014498.html

Your final guess is correct. #undef HAVE_TIMER_CREATE and/or
USE_TIMER_CREATE in mk/config.h

HTH Christian

Anatoly Yakovenko wrote:
> I have a gentoo box with ghc 6.8.2, and the binaries that ghc builds
> on that box do not work on redhat EL 4 or ubuntu 7.10.  When I try to
> run the binary, i get an error:
> 
> Main: timer_create: Invalid argument
> 
> so is there any way to get ghc to build a binary that doesn't use
> timer_create?  or is that something that is configured when ghc itself
> is built, if so, how do I turn that feature off?
> 
> Thanks