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Your final guess is correct. #undef HAVE_TIMER_CREATE and/or USE_TIMER_CREATE in mk/config.h HTH Christian Anatoly Yakovenko wrote: > I have a gentoo box with ghc 6.8.2, and the binaries that ghc builds > on that box do not work on redhat EL 4 or ubuntu 7.10. When I try to > run the binary, i get an error: > > Main: timer_create: Invalid argument > > so is there any way to get ghc to build a binary that doesn't use > timer_create? or is that something that is configured when ghc itself > is built, if so, how do I turn that feature off? > > Thanks _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe