Installing latest GHC-6.8.2 stable: pwd with floating point exception

[guest]

I tried to install

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080410-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

on Kubuntu. It was reported to be build properly:

 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2008-April/041915.html

but I get:

/tmp/ghc-6.8.2.20080410> ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
Which we'll further canonicalise into: i386-unknown-linux
checking for path to top of build tree... configure: error: cannot determine current directory

From other reports I got to know that this might have to do with the custom 'pwd' of ghc installation. Indeed I get:

/tmp/ghc-6.8.2.20080410> ./utils/pwd/pwd
Floating point exception

[igloo]

Thanks for the report. However, this is caused by your system libraries (libc?) being too old for the binaries.

The binary works for me.

[spookylukey]

I have the same thing, trying to install on CentOS 4.5

This should really be a wontfix, not invalid.

Also, it would be nice to know *before* downloading etc that it isn't going to work. The download page for GHC should at least have a message stating the requirements for the binary.

CentOS 4.5 has glibc 2.3.4, BTW. This may seem ancient, but in lots of shared hosting environments, this kind of thing is typical -- hosts like stability and don't care for the latest versions of everything.

[guest]

same problem, amd thunderbird 1100MHz, none of the binaries working, error is: Floating point exception

[simonmar]

This error is caused by an incompatibility between the libc on your system and the one on the system we used to build GHC. Update to a more recent version of the OS and you'll be fine.

Igloo: do we know which version(s) of glibc are ok, so we can document it on the download page?

[igloo]

I don't know which versions are OK.

[igloo]

We don't have a way to keep this info up-to-date, and I think incorrect info would be worse than no info, so I'm closing this ticket.