[Haskell-cafe] Building Plaftorm 2010 2 on 64bit Linux

[Magnus Therning]

2011/2/8 Kolar Dusan <kolar at fit.vutbr.cz>:
>> 2011/2/8 Dušan Kolář <kolar at fit.vutbr.cz>:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>  I'm trying to build platform on Linux 2.6.32.22 #1 SMP Tue Sep 21
>>> 09:44:04
>>> CEST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. I've downloaded binary of
>>> ghc6.12.3 for the purpose, but ghc doesn't work. ghci does work, gcc does
>>> work, but for ghc I get:
>>>
>>> ghc -O2 --make test.hs -o test
>>> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( test.hs, test.o )
>>> ghc: could not execute: /usr/bin/gcc
>>>
>>> Even if I can easily compile gcc testc.c -o testc and run testc.
>>>
>>> Could anyone point me to a solution? Helps found by google pointed me to
>>> try
>>> use option -pgmc gcc, which doesn't work. All other threads with similar
>>> issue stayed unresoleved. :-(
>>
>> I'm guessing you actually do have good reasons for going this route,
>> but I thought I'd ask, just to make sure ;-)
>>
>> Why are you going this route, of manually compiling HP using a
>> pre-built binary from haskell.org, instead of using your Linux
>> distro's pre-built (and well tested) version?
>
> There's no such a "package" I could easily install :-(
> It is CentOS based installation and I'm not the adiministrator so that I
> could not do even other things I would like to do.

That is indeed a good reason for building it yourself :-)

/M

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