Re: target audience for the binary distribution

2014-02-10 Thread harry
Something that works on CentOS 6.5 would be much appreciated, thank you. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/target-audience-for-the-binary-distribution-tp5743588p5743762.html Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: target audience for the binary distribution

2014-02-10 Thread Austin Seipp
I asked on the mailing list a few days prior to RC1 if anyone was interested in a binary build based on an older glibc distribution (e.g. CentOS.) Nobody replied, so I didn't bother building it. I also accidentally had RC1 use glibc_2.15, when it should have been 2.13 (Debian stable version.) I th

Re: target audience for the binary distribution

2014-02-09 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 14-02-08 01:33 PM, harry wrote: Who actually are "most users" for the bindist? Debian & derivatives have the latest GHC in the package repository No. The other pasture is not greener. The distro you don't use is not more up to date. Chinese proverb: all crows in the whole world are equally

Re: target audience for the binary distribution

2014-02-08 Thread Carter Schonwald
its important to note that this is still a release candidate! Your feedback means we can try to support you better with the final "OFFICIAL" 7.8.1 release! :) seriously, thanks for taking the time to try out the RC, please holler with any other issues you hit On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:43 PM, da

Re: target audience for the binary distribution

2014-02-08 Thread davean
As a Debian user, I always do a home directory install. I also am root. On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:33 PM, harry wrote: > I'm unable to install the binary distribution of 7.8.1 on RHEL because it > requires libgmp.so.10 and GLIBC_2.15, which are much greater than the > version available on Red Hat