[Haskell-cafe] Installation of Haskell Platform on CentOS 5.5

[Tristan Ravitch]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:52:01AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:
> frode k <mailinglist at klevstul.com> writes:
>
> > Installation of GHC 7.0.2 failed:
> > # ./configure --prefix=/usr/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.0/
> > checking for path to top of build tree...
> > utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.9'
> > not found (required by utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd)
> > utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7'
> > not found (required by utils/ghc-pwd/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pwd)
> > configure: error: cannot determine current directory
>
> I eventually gave up on this, too.  Shame, I'd really like to use a
> newer GHC - did anybody succeed in compiling it on Red Hat or CentOS?
>
> -k

The ghc7 binaries are compiled against a newer version of glibc than
is available on RHEL/CentOS.  It works fine if you compile ghc7 from
source yourself (you can use 6.12 for that).
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