haskell-platform Add official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Curious what it would take to get official support for RHEL 5, 6, 7? These systems will be with us for a long time to come. For example RHEL 5 "support" goes until 2017. Justhub seems to have given up.

Oct 08 '14 12:10 gitfoxi

all we need is a packager! would that be you?

Mar 29 '15 04:03 mzero

I guess I am the guy with motivation to do it. But not necessarily the skills. I've tried building GHC on Red Hat 5 without a lot of luck. If I ever do manage to do it, I'll contact you about the build recipe and how to put the package on the Haskell platform website.

Mar 29 '15 20:03 gitfoxi

@gitfoxi if you want help debugging the build, please join the haskell-platform mailing list. Also, you may be interested in my recent notes on buliding latest GHC & HP on linux in a clean environment using Docker. Even if you don't use Docker, all the shell steps are listed there: https://gist.github.com/156554bb60cb3cb613f8.git

Jun 03 '15 03:06 mzero