Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc-7 -fPIC error

2013-04-30 Thread Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
Hello, please see this thread which I think is about the same issue you are seeing: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-June/102023.html In short, this is apparently caused by broken GCC. The solution is to use build.mk with disable optimizations or download from http://justhub.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc-7 -fPIC error

2013-04-30 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/04/13 03:05, Christopher Howard wrote: > Hey guys, this probably isn't the official GHC mailing list, but > I've been trying to build and install a new GHC on an old RHEL5 > system, as mentioned in my previous Cafe thread. I was able to make > so

[Haskell-cafe] ghc-7 -fPIC error

2013-04-29 Thread Christopher Howard
Hey guys, this probably isn't the official GHC mailing list, but I've been trying to build and install a new GHC on an old RHEL5 system, as mentioned in my previous Cafe thread. I was able to make some good headway: I installed a ghc-6.8 binary, and then used that to build ghc-6.10 source, and then