[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1, release candidate 1

[George Colpitts]

I asked the same question and Ben answered: (gmail default is reply and I
forgot to do reply all)

[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/MacOSX

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Andrew Farmer <xichekolas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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