Simon Marlow writes:
>
> This is somewhat of a FAQ - the problem is that you're running a compiler
> built on (and for) Linux/libc5, on Linux/libc6.
>
Could this be put in the 'Problems' section of the installation guide?
> If your system can build binaries linked against libc5 (I believe the
> correct incantation is '-b i486-linux-libc5' to gcc, and don't forget to add
> '-optc' before each option for ghc) then you need to do that when building
> the hsc binary in ghc/compiler. I didn't have any luck doing this myself; I
> think our system here doesn't have enough bits installed.
>
On debian you can download libc5 versions of gcc and libraries (I
forget what you need exactly but there's information in the Debian
FAQ). You then put the libc5 version of gcc earlier on your path and
bingo.
I don't know if similar solutions exist for the other distributions.
Kevin
