[Haskell-beginners] Can't install Haskell platform on Mac OS X El Capitan

Yury Pachin yuriy.pachin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 10:08:30 UTC 2015


Haskell platform - bad idea. Use brew or stack
https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/08/new-in-depth-guide-stack.

On 12 October 2015 at 10:51, Richard Guay <raguay at customct.com> wrote:

> Not sure why, but some programs can not create links or files in
> /usr/local. I have ran into this with Hammerspoon and the Haskell
> installer. I agree the Haskell for Mac OS X is a better way to run,
> but I keep having cabal conflicts with other libraries. I was
> answering for the specific problem, not an alternate solution.
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen
> <hanche at math.ntnu.no> wrote:
> > Richard Guay wrote:
> >>
> >> The installer can't create the links to your /usr/local/bin folder
> >> anymore under El Capitan.
> >
> >
> > How come? The /usr/local hierarchy is expressly excempt from the
> > restrictions that apply to the rest of the /usr hierarchy.
> >
> > I have all kinds of stuff in /usr/local myself, no trouble at all.
> >
> > But Haskell platform used to install binaries in /usr/bin, which is
> > definitely a no-no on El Capitan. I think a workaround was posted to this
> > mailing list, or was it on cafe?
> >
> > Personally, I have abandoned Haskell platform in favour of the
> installation
> > instructions here:
> >
> > https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/blob/master/install.md
> >
> > So I couldn't comment on the viability of the workaround that I saw.
> >
> > – Harald
> >
> > PS. I don't know what happens if /usr/local did not exist when you
> installed
> > El Capitan. Is it then necessary to turn off SIP in order to create this
> > directory, due to the restrictions on /usr?
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