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