On Jun 5, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Linux, the builds are keyed by the OS name they were built on. This is > because systems like CentOS have different versions of libgmp, glibc than > e.g. Debian derivatives. So they actually refer to different paths, are built > against different APIs depending on what's available, etc. That's why the > names are distinguished; in the past only Debian-based builds were offered, > but I started building CentOS versions in the 7.8.x era. > > The debian-based builds are normally the 'lowest common denominator' that > works on all modern systems. Given that, you want: > > https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/ghc-8.0.1-x86_64-deb8-linux.tar.xz Thanks for this explanation. If that's the go-to distribution for any arbitrary linux, perhaps we should make a symlink with "unknown-linux" point to it. To be clear, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I do see that many other directories on downloads.haskell.org/~ghc have "unknown-linux" options and I feel safer using that than a binary for a distribution I don't have. In any case, thanks for the clarification! Richard
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