[GHC] #8744: "Thread-local storage not supported" for Mac

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#8744: "Thread-local storage not supported" for Mac
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       Reporter:  goldfire        |             Owner:
           Type:  bug             |            Status:  new
       Priority:  normal          |         Milestone:
      Component:  Compiler        |           Version:  7.8.1-rc1
       Keywords:                  |  Operating System:  MacOS X
   Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)  |   Type of failure:  Building GHC failed
     Difficulty:  Unknown         |         Test Case:
     Blocked By:                  |          Blocking:
Related Tickets:                  |
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 On a fresh clone of HEAD, building eventually gets me

 {{{
 "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1" -optc-Wall -optc-Wextra -optc-Wstrict-prototypes
 -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-
 Waggregate-return -optc-Wpointer-arith -optc-Wmissing-noreturn -optc-
 Wnested-externs -optc-Wredundant-decls -optc-Iincludes -optc-
 Iincludes/dist -optc-Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -optc-
 Iincludes/dist-ghcconstants/header -optc-Irts -optc-Irts/dist/build -optc-
 DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fno-strict-aliasing -optc-fno-common -optc-DDTRACE
 -optc-O2 -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -optc-DRtsWay=\"rts_thr\" -optc-
 funroll-loops -static -optc-DTHREADED_RTS  -H64m -O -fasm -Iincludes
 -Iincludes/dist -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -Iincludes/dist-
 ghcconstants/header -Irts -Irts/dist/build -DCOMPILING_RTS -package-name
 rts -dcmm-lint  -DDTRACE     -i -irts -irts/dist/build
 -irts/dist/build/autogen -Irts/dist/build -Irts/dist/build/autogen
 -O2    -c rts/sm/Evac.c -o rts/dist/build/sm/Evac.thr_o

 In file included from rts/sm/Evac.c:21:0:

 rts/sm/GCTDecl.h:71:0:
      error: thread-local storage not supported for this target
 }}}

 I'm on Mac OS 10.8.5, Xcode 4.6.1 (4H512), bootstrapping from 7.6.3, with
 `BuildFlavour = devel2`.

 With this report, my build is dead in the water.

 (Separately, Trac doesn't have an option for reporting a bug in version
 7.9!)

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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8744>
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