<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Maybe you'd like to install a virtual instance of OSX and test things from clean scratch, I'd expect any routine installation of GHC should work, then add macports/homebrew etc. to bisect the culprit.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Free VirtualBox should do, VMWare Fusion or Parallel Desktop can offer even smoother experience at some fees/cost.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2021-10-13, at 19:56, David Duke <<a href="mailto:duke.j.david@gmail.com" class="">duke.j.david@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Thanks Steven. Looks like it might be something with my system.<div class="">I reinstalled from macports 8.10.7</div><div class="">@ Carter yes I've been carefully check the compiler version on each trial.<br class=""></div><div class="">However trying to compile a Haskell source gives the same libHSbase error</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(59, 35, 34); background-color: rgb(215, 211, 183);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">ndefined symbols for architecture x86_64:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(59, 35, 34); background-color: rgb(215, 211, 183);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>"_iconv", referenced from:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(59, 35, 34); background-color: rgb(215, 211, 183);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>_hs_iconv in libHSbase-4.14.3.0.a(iconv.o</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(59, 35, 34); background-color: rgb(215, 211, 183);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(59, 35, 34); background-color: rgb(215, 211, 183);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(59, 35, 34); background-color: rgb(215, 211, 183);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 2:54 AM Steven Smith <<a href="mailto:steve.t.smith@gmail.com" class="">steve.t.smith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m a maintainer of the MacPorts ghc port. The MacPorts installations do not have this issue, whether installed from the buildbot binaries or compiled from source, that all work on multiple macOS versions 10.9–11. Here’s the build recipe: <a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/ghc/Portfile" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/ghc/Portfile</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The iconv symbol issue is known,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/18752" target="_blank" class="">https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/18752</a>, and packages like MacPorts must build around it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This looks like something specific to your configuration.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you believe that there is an issue outside your system, please initiate a trac ticket at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://trac.macports.org/" target="_blank" class="">https://trac.macports.org</a>.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 11, 2021, at 5:00 AM, David Duke <<a href="mailto:duke.j.david@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">duke.j.david@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I have a conundrum on which advice would be appreciate. Does<div class="">anyone know how to successfully install ghc on OSX </div><div class="">I've tried various binary instalation routes:</div><div class="">macports, brew, direct binary downloads from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://haskel.org/" target="_blank" class="">haskel.org</a></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; 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