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What is PATH_TO_GHC_BINDIST_TARBALL #336

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rsolano1-uw opened this issue Mar 25, 2020 · 1 comment
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What is PATH_TO_GHC_BINDIST_TARBALL #336

rsolano1-uw opened this issue Mar 25, 2020 · 1 comment

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@rsolano1-uw
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Hello,

I am trying to compile the Haskell Platform 8.4.3 on a CentOS 6 system because the provided binaries were compiled against newer versions of libraries than are available on CentOS 6. I have downloaded the 8.4.3 source tarball from here, but I am slightly confused by the build instructions. In the README, it says that the first argument to platform.sh should be the $PATH_TO_GHC_BINDIST_TARBALL, but does not describe which binary distribution tarball from the Haskell website that should be. Given that there seem to be three sets of Haskell installers, I'm not sure which to use here.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

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TDecking commented Apr 4, 2020

PATH_TO_GHC_BINDIST_TARBALL refers to one of the tarballs that are downloaded from https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/.

Note that I don't know wether "compiled against newer versions of libraries" applies to these tarballs aswell.

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