Elite software development.

No GHC on CentOS, pkgsrc

When I tried to install the Glasgow Haskell Compiler on Linux, two package management systems disappointed me.

I recently installed CentOS 5. I was disappointed to see yum search ghc and yum search haskell return nothing (No Matches found). So, no GHC is available on CentOS.

So, I installed the pkgsrc package management system on top of CentOS. Pkgsrc disappointed me, too. When I tried to build the 'ghc' package, I was told:

ERROR: This package is only available for these platforms: Darwin-*-i386 FreeBSD-*-i386 NetBSD-*-i386 OpenBSD-*-i386.
ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
ERROR: No usable termcap library found on the system.
ERROR: ghc-6.8.3nb1 is not available for Linux-2.6.9-i386

This is enough for me to abandon CentOS entirely, and to dim my view of pkgsrc. :-(