[IPython-dev] nbconvert on Scientific Linux 5

[Jon Wilson]

Hi Aaron,
I seem to have succeeded.  I installed the GHC 6.8 binary, which I used 
to compile ("quickest" build mode) GHC 6.12, which I used to compile GHC 
7.4, which I used to compile GHC 7.6.3 ("perf" build mode).  I then used 
GHC 7.6.3 to compile haskell-platform from source.  I ran into minor 
difficulties here, because the system I'm on lacks GLUT.  But following 
instructions from [1], I removed all the OpenGL stuff from the build.  
Then I had cabal, so I could run cabal install cabal and then cabal 
install pandoc.

Now I just have to re-do `make install` for GHC 7.6.3 and for 
haskell-platform with a prefix that puts it inside my anaconda distribution.

I initially ran into problems with haskell-platform, because I got 
ambitious and built the latest GHC, rather than GHC 7.6.3.  This 
compiler failed to build the platform.  But when I went back to the 
recommended version, all was well.

I'm happy to share binaries or whatever with anybody else who is having 
difficulties getting pandoc going on an older system.
Regards,
Jon

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18116508/2539647


On 06/27/2014 06:51 PM, Aaron Meurer wrote:
> Oh, I missed that you are already using Anaconda. In that case, you
> already have conda.
>
> By the way, here's the conda recipe I used for pandoc:
> https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/tree/master/pandoc. It's kind
> of hacky (i.e., it installs things into the local cabal, because I
> didn't feel like building up a true conda package stack for Haskell
> packages just for the sake of pandoc). It depends on gmp 4, libffi,
> and zlib, all of which are also in that same repo.
>
> The notes.md unfortunately doesn't do justice to the pain I went
> through trying to get things to work. For instance, it matters if you
> have profiling enabled in the haskell-platform, and you have to do it
> from the start, because you can't build against dependencies unless
> they also have it enabled. At one point, I ended up manually
> recompiling about 100 recursive dependencies of pandoc. And I think in
> the end it didn't even work for some reason...
>
> Aaron Meurer
>