Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-05-01 Thread Christopher Howard
On 05/01/2013 12:21 AM, Gabor Greif wrote: Am 27. April 2013 um 07:21 schrieb Christopher Howard christopher.how...@frigidcode.com: I can feel your pain... Here is a blog post I have written some time ago http://heisenbug.blogspot.de/2011/09/ghc-704-on-centos.html about how to bridge the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-29 Thread David Virebayre
I've got ghc working here on a centos 5.5 machine. But without root privilege, I don't know how. Perhaps you can use a virtual machine with centos 5.5 (you'd have root access on this machine), install ghc on this machine, compile your programs there, then transfer that on the first computer ?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-28 Thread Tim Docker
On 27/04/13 15:21, Christopher Howard 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Francesco Mazzoli
At Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:21:48 -0800, Christopher Howard 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 21:21 -0800, Christopher Howard 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Saturday 27 April 2013, 19:18:35, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 21:21 -0800, Christopher Howard 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Joe Quinn
If you are feeling brave, you can also bootstrap GHC. For operating systems that are already supported, it should not be too hard. Last time I tried on a fresh install of Debian, the process was to install the dependencies, and then something like this: sh configure make make install

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Have you considered installing on older version of GHC? Such as GHC 6.10.4 or GHC 6.8.3? http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_4 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683 They won't have all the latest extensions.. but they still have more features than any other alternative. Also,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Christopher Howard: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Siraaj Khandkar
On Apr 27, 2013, at 1:21 AM, 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Hong Yang
I had similar work situation before. What I did was: install a CentOS virtual machine on Windows at home (CentOS version should be compatible to your RHEL5 version, and do not update it), then play with Haskell within CentOS. Your executables will be runnable on RHEL5. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Christopher Howard
On 04/27/2013 08:36 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: Christopher Howard: Is the portability which worries you, or the age of your system? Actually getting a successful build and installation would be great. Also, there are multiple systems I work with, both of which have ancient software, but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-27 Thread Aaron Tomb
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,

[Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-26 Thread Christopher Howard
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.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-04-26 Thread Tommy Thorn
Hugs98, or failing that, the original Hugs, will almost certainly be easier to compile for your RHEL5 system, but do note that it's not a compiler in the sense that it makes standalone binaries. Given your constraints, it's probably the best choice. Tommy On Apr 26, 2013, at 22:21 ,