[Haskell-cafe] Can I build and install GHC 6.10.1 without previous installed ghc

[Wang, Chunye (NSN - CN/Beijing)]

Hi Don,

	I tried to install the ghc 6.8.0 last year but failed for some
reason.
                Now I decide to do it again, because I'd like to try
some 
                examples in <<Real World Haskell>>

                Now I remember why I try to install it from source code,

                because the binary version has the following problem.

%./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Which we'll further canonicalise into: x86_64-unknown-linux
checking for path to top of build tree... pwd: timer_create: Invalid
argument
configure: error: cannot determine current directory

	I know my linux distribution is a private modified version,
which is based on RedHat 9.0
                I guess it is pretty old version. 
 
                I also installed many other software from source code. 

                I guess ``timer_create '' is failed because of library
confliction.

Best Regards
Chunye Wang <chunye.wang at nsn.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: ext Don Stewart [mailto:dons at galois.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:31 AM
To: Wang, Chunye (NSN - CN/Beijing)
Cc: Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org; glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can I build and install GHC 6.10.1 without
previous installed ghc

chunye.wang:
> Hi All,
>  
>  
>        I have our own Linux distribution installed in my server. 
>        it is based on RedHat 9.0. Because it is the server, I can 
>        not update it to any other linux distribution
> 
>        Here is my situation, I have no machine with any version of ghc

> installed.

Please use a basic linux binary.

    http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_1.html#x86linux

Such as "Linux (x86)"

-- Don