<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>Hi, I found the RHEL4 souce and binary RPMs from <a target="_blank" href="http://forte-intl.com/%7Eronald/haskell/ghc/rhel4/">http://forte-intl.com/~ronald/haskell/ghc/rhel4/</a>, however, I do not have root privileges on the machine and therefore the installation attempts all failed (for binary RPM, it says can't create transaction lock /var/lock/rpm/transaction, for source RPM, it says cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES). Also, I currently have no access to any machine on which there is a working ghc installation so I can't even try the nonregisterised bootstrapping procedure. What should I try now? Thanks!</span><br><br>Di, Yu<br>1.9<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com><br>To: Yu Di <diyu60607@yahoo.com><br>Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org<br>Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 10:07:16 PM<br>Subject: Re: problem with GHC installaion on x86_64<br><br>
Yu Di wrote:<br>> Hi, I am trying to use ghc on a 64-bit machine (uname -a shows: Linux<br>> ... 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 16:36:54 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64<br>> x86_64 GNU/Linux),<br><br>Since you're using RHEL4, you could try grabbing a GHC source RPM for<br>Fedora and building that. It might take a bit of tweaking, but
probably<br>very little. (For instructions on building binary RPMs from source,<br>Google around.)<br><br> <b<br></div><br></div></div><br>
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