Re: Installing GHC and libgmp.so

2013-07-24 Thread harry
Stephen Paul Weber wrote > You can create the link somewhere else, and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH > I have done this before. If your version of libgmp is compatible, it > should > work. Thank you - that worked! -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Installing-GHC-and

Re: Installing GHC and libgmp.so

2013-07-23 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Somebody claiming to be harry wrote: Stephen Paul Weber wrote Somebody claiming to be harry wrote: I also need to install GHC on systems where I don't have root access, so I can't create the link. You can create the link somewhere else, and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH I have done this before. If you

Re: Installing GHC and libgmp.so

2013-07-23 Thread harry
Brandon Allbery wrote > Linux ld.so doesn't work that way. What does the --with-gmp-libraries option do? I've tried using it with a local shortcut, but it didn't help. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Installing-GHC-and-libgmp-so-tp570p5733351.html Sent

Re: Installing GHC and libgmp.so

2013-07-23 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, harry wrote: > Could GHC be configured to look for libgmp.so.3, or whatever version it was > actually linked against, if it can't find libgmp.so? > Linux ld.so doesn't work that way. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associat

Re: Installing GHC and libgmp.so

2013-07-23 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Stephen Paul Weber < singpol...@singpolyma.net> wrote: > Somebody claiming to be harry wrote: > >> all of this stems from GHC >> looking for libgmp.so, instead of libgmp.so.3 >> > > Most systems symlink libgmp.so to the default version installed. On > Debian stab

Re: Installing GHC and libgmp.so

2013-07-23 Thread harry
Stephen Paul Weber wrote > Somebody claiming to be harry wrote: >>all of this stems from GHC >>looking for libgmp.so, instead of libgmp.so.3 > > Most systems symlink libgmp.so to the default version installed. On > Debian > stable it's libgmp.so.10 ... so it may work for you, but you may want to

Re: Installing GHC and libgmp.so

2013-07-23 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Somebody claiming to be harry wrote: all of this stems from GHC looking for libgmp.so, instead of libgmp.so.3 Most systems symlink libgmp.so to the default version installed. On Debian stable it's libgmp.so.10 ... so it may work for you, but you may want to upgrade. -- Stephen Paul Weber,

Installing GHC and libgmp.so

2013-07-23 Thread harry
I've had a lot of trouble installing the pre-build binary of GHC on various Linux systems for which packages don't exist - all of this stems from GHC looking for libgmp.so, instead of libgmp.so.3. Various combinations of --with-gmp-libraries haven't helped, particularly as I need a packaged build f