I recently built a binary installer for GHC 7.6.3 to run on CentOS 5.9, which should be compatible with RHEL 5. It uses glibc 2.5, at least. I don't have a good place to host it long-term, but would be happy to make it available to you (or anyone else who's interested).
Aaron On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Christopher Howard < christopher.how...@frigidcode.com> wrote: > Hi. I've got this work situation where I've got to do all my work on > /ancient/ RHEL5 systems, with funky software configurations, and no root > privileges. I wanted to install GHC in my local account, but the gnu > libc version is so old (2.5!) that I can't even get the binary packages > to install. > > I've had success installing some other simple functional languages (like > CLISP) on these same systems, so I was wondering if there was perhaps > another language very similar to Haskell (but presumably simpler) with a > super portable compiler easily built from source, which I could try. > > I'll admit -- I haven't tried the HUGS compiler for Haskell. The quick > description didn't make it sound much more portable than GHC, but I > guess I could try it if I heard some good reasons to think it would be > more portable. > > -- > frigidcode.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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