Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> I'm slightly disturbed that there hasn't been much noise on this list
> concerning ghc and Linux/glibc versioning problems. We've had no end of
> trouble here with incompatibilites between glibc 2.0 and 2.1 - although
> programs built on the former appear to be forward-compatible, strange
> problems crop up later on. Backwards compatibiltiy is more of a no-no:
> things tend to crash much earlier.
[...]
> Since the linux binaries on the web page, advertised as glibc2.0/2.1, don't
> actually work very well on 2.1, I'm putting together a 2.1-friendly dist
> right now.
My i386/Linux rpm is already build against glibc 2.1.1
(standard install on RedHat 6.0). I guess most people these
days use some Debian, RedHat, or SuSE flavour. As far as I
know, there are GHC builds for all three distributions; so,
as long as everybody takes the .deb or .rpm packages
matching their distribution, there are not many
incompatibilites to be expected.
Manuel
PS: I haven't had library problems on my Linux boxes for
quite a while, although I am constantly fiddling with
the installation. IMHO, the big Linux distributions are
very solid these days.
