[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1, release candidate 1

[Andrew Farmer]

I'm guessing this is the same problem with gmp on OS X, but I got it
during the ./configure step, so thought I'd pass along the error
message:

mba:ghc-8.0.0.20160111 xich$ ./configure --prefix=/Users/xich/projects/ghc8
checking for path to top of build tree... dyld: Library not loaded:
/usr/local/opt/gmp/lib/libgmp.10.dylib
  Referenced from:
/Users/xich/projects/ghc-8.0.0.20160111/utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd
  Reason: image not found
configure: error: cannot determine current directory

You made reference to the wiki build instructions... do you have a
link to the ones you mean? I can try following them.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> installs fine on mac but cabal install vector fails on primitive, looks to
>> me like gmp library is not provided
>>
>> cabal install vector
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> Configuring primitive-0.6.1.0...
>> Failed to install primitive-0.6.1.0
>> Build log ( /Users/gcolpitts/.cabal/logs/primitive-0.6.1.0.log ):
>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> primitive-0.6.1.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>> user error ('/usr/local/bin/ghc' exited with an error:
>> *ld: library not found for -lgmp*
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> `gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
>> )
>> vector-0.11.0.0 depends on primitive-0.6.1.0 which failed to install.
>>
> The issue here appears to be that the build was compiled against the
> host's libgmp on account of the the Wiki build instructions [1] being out of
> date. I've fixed this particular inaccuracy, but it would be great if
> someone familiar with Darwin could take a close look at this page: do a
> build of their own, work through the build instructions, and ensure that
> the build instructions are still accurate, fixing any issues.
>
> George or Carter, perhaps one of you could pick this up?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
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