[ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

[Richard Eisenberg]

On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Peter Trommler <Peter.Trommler at th-nuernberg.de> wrote:

> It looks like a bug to me.

I'm taking your "it" here to mean the fact that GHC is looking for readelf on a Mac OS platform. I tend to agree -- I was surprised to see this, but I'm almost-totally clueless about these things.

Thanks for the info,
Richard

PS: There's been much muttering about call stacks and DWARF. I haven't a clue what DWARF is, but I always assumed that this nice feature would not be available on Macs. What I realized today is that this assumption likely stems from the fact that ELF is not for Mac. ELFs and DWARFs tend to be found near one another in other settings, but perhaps this fact doesn't carry over to computer architectures. :)

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> Cheers,
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> Peter 
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>> On 04.11.2015, at 16:46, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>> I can't build 7.10.3 RC1 because I don't have readelf. ./configure says this:
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>>> checking for readelf... no
>>> configure: error: cannot find readelf in your PATH
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>> A (very) quick search has turned up no help. I'm worried that my problem is that I'm still running Mac OS 10.8.5 (Snow Leopard? I never could keep track of all the animals... and now mountains.) I *really* don't want to upgrade, as I tried 10.9 once and it brought my system to its knees... had to reformat to downgrade back to 10.8.
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>> Help?
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>> Thanks!
>> Richard
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