[Haskell-beginners] Compiling GHC 7.4.1 on Mac OS X, XCode 4.3

[Erlend Hamberg]

On 5 March 2012 13:08, Obscaenvs <obscaenvs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find it somewhat reluctant in the Haskell department, though: I do not
> want the lagging haskell-platform, and decided to do things from scratch,
> i.e. compile ghc myself. I followed the intructions, and I *have* compiled
> stuff before, so I'm not completely lost. However, after ./configure, make
> exits with the message

Have you considered using the Homebrew package manager¹?
Using homebrew it should – at least in theory – be as easy as:

$ brew update
$ brew install --devel ghc

The “--devel” switch should choose GHC 7.4.1, as far as I remember.

[1] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

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Erlend Hamberg
ehamberg at gmail.com