[Haskell-cafe] building Haskell Platform for CentOS 5.2 with a /tmp mounted noexec

[Chris Dornan]

I don't know whether I could have gotten away with it but was happy to go
through all the intermediate stages: it seemed the safer bet.

The building of a complete GHC bundle from source is such a major
undertaking that I really didn't want to build it with an old compiler and
lose all of the testing that goes into each GHC release.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [mailto:ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com] 
Sent: 18 April 2010 12:03 AM
To: Chris Dornan
Cc: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] building Haskell Platform for CentOS 5.2 with a
/tmp mounted noexec

"Chris Dornan" <chris at chrisdornan.com> writes:
> .         Keep trying generic binary Linux ghc packages until one that
works
> is found (in this case ghc-6.8.3);
>
> .         With ghc-6.8.3 installed, download the src tar ball for the next
> ghc release (6.10.1) and build and install that;
>

I wonder, could you have gone straight from 6.8.3 to 6.12.1 (or if not that,
since 6.10.1 built then presumably 6.10.4 probably would have as well).

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