[Haskell-beginners] cmath Install troubles

Tom Murphy amindfv at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 21:26:08 CET 2012


On 1/19/12, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 16:37, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Tom Murphy <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is it possible that I have a version of math.h which doesn't have
>> > these definitions ("gamma," "finite," "isinf," etc.) in it?
>>
>> That's a good guess based on the error messages - or math.h isn't in
>> whatever paths we're looking in.
>>

If math.h wasn't in the paths at all, wouldn't I get an error about
_every_ function being undefined?

>> What sort of system are you compiling this on?

Mac OS 10.6.7

>
> [...] My first question is whether the
> appropriate Xcode is installed, including the optional components
> (pre-Xcode 4, the "BSD" packages needed to compile most Unix software were
> optional).

I really am not sure about whether I installed the BSD packages. I'd
guess I did, but maybe not. How can I tell, and is there a simple
remedy?

> Note that Xcode 4 from the App Store actually puts an installer
> program in /Applications; that has to be run to actually install Xcode.
>

It's XCode 3.2.6.


Also, I've got 20 copies of math.h on my hard drive, at least of
couple of which feature definitions of "gamma," "isinf," etc.



Thanks for your help!
Tom



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