ghc on macos

[Robert Harper]

aha!  most probably it just takes much longer than i ever expected.   
now i don't feel so bad about how long it takes to build tilt ....

fyi, i'm on a g5 with 2gb ram.

bob

On Oct 10, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Gregory Wright wrote:

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> On Oct 10, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
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>> Can anyone help Bob with getting GHC to work on his Mac?  Wolfgang?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Harper [mailto:bobharper at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 06 October 2005 00:48
>> To: Simon Peyton-Jones
>> Subject: ghc on macos
>>
>> hi simon,
>>
>> today i downloaded ghc using darwinports on my macos notebook.
>> installing ghc never terminates, unfortunately.  it gets to "building
>> ghc with target all" and never finishes (this after a "sudo port
>> install ghc" command to the shell).
>>
>>
>
> Try "sudo port -dv install ghc"; the "-dv" flags will let you watch  
> what
> is going on. Note that on a reasonably fast system, e.g., a  
> powerbook G4
> 1.5 GHz with 1 GB RAM, ghc takes five or six hours to build.  On my  
> old 800 MHz
> powerbook, it took 10 hours.
>
> The "port info ghc" command will give you the email address of the  
> port
> maintainer (in this case, me) so you can communicate to him directly.
>
> Does it really never terminate or just takes much longer than you  
> expected?
>
> Best Wishes,
> Greg
>
>
>
>> bob
>>
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