mac platform problem with configure in 7.10.3 release candidate 3

[Carter Schonwald]

Was this my build or the hq build?
On Nov 20, 2015 6:55 PM, "George Colpitts" <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On MacOS if your path is such that gcc is the gnu gcc rather than Apple's
> gcc then ./configure gives
>
> checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in
> `/Users/gcolpitts/downloads/ghc-7.10.2.20151114':
> configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
> If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> See `config.log' for more details
>
> I worked around this by doing
>
> export PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
>
> before doing ./configure
>
> After that the install worked fine.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> We are pleased to announce the third release candidate of GHC 7.10.3:
>>
>>     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3-rc3/
>>
>> There have been a few changes since -rc2,
>>
>>   * The newly-introduced readelf configure check has been disabled on
>>     non-ELF platforms
>>
>>   * Some tracing output from the typechecker that was causing
>>     some testsuites to fail was removed
>>
>>   * A latent bug in call arity analysis (#11064) is fixed
>>
>>   * A code generation bug (#10870) in the PowerPC NCG is fixed
>>
>>   * A bug in the treatment of foreign calls during demand analysis
>>     (#11076) which had affected GHCJS is fixed
>>
>>   * A bug in the x86 NCG causing invalid assembly to be produced
>>     when compiling with `-g` is fixed.
>>
>> At this moment you will find the source tarball, as well as, 64-bit
>> Windows, Mac OS X, 32- and 64-bit modern Linux (built on Debian 8)
>> binary distributions available at the above URL. As usual, you may need
>> to work around our content delivery network's update latency by adding
>> redundant forward-slashes to the URL.
>>
>> It has come to our attention that there still may be some issues with
>> long command lines on Windows with this release: While the toolchain
>> upgrade included in this release has the response file support necessary
>> to work around this limitation, the version of the Cabal library
>> shipped with this release does not. Unfortunately, the fix [1], which
>> affects Cabal's haddock integration, has not yet shipped in a Cabal
>> release. If you encounter this issue you might consider installing Cabal
>> and cabal-install from git.
>>
>> Lastly, I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge Futureice [2], who have
>> donated a brand new Mac Mini for use by GHC developers to help support
>> this platform. Their generosity is the reason we are able to offer OS X
>> builds to you today.
>>
>> Many thanks to Futureice for this donation!
>>
>> Happy testing!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/1c1228a808b55331ac1db6d71fd2f8533f5fc57e
>> [2] http://futurice.com/
>>
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