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

[Ketil Malde]

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
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