Building GHC on Mac OS X or Fixing readline

[Kennis Koldewyn]

I've attempted to compile GHC 6.01 from sources for Mac OS X, but after  
a successful configure, make soon grinds to a halt (see "Listing 1"  
below).  I'm looking for either:

1.  A brief list of tips and tricks for getting GHC to build on Mac OS  
X (see "My Mac" below), or

2.  A way to fix my broken readline package (see "Listing 2" below).   
Arthur Baars mentioned on 2003-07-18 (see "Message Link 1" below) that  
this problem had been fixed in 6.0.1, and the GHC Downloads page  
mentions that the readline library must be installed.  I've installed  
GHC 6.0.1 using Wolfgang Thaller's Mac OS X package and I  
(subsequently) installed readline 4.3, but GHCi still panics, and I  
also tried Arthur's "quick fix" without success.

Thanks for any helpful suggestions,

- Kennis


----- Kennis Koldewyn (koldewyn at cloud9.net) -----
Without computers, it would be virtually impossible
for us to accompliowur xow;gkc,mf(&(   - Dave Barry


----- Start of Listing 1 -----
==fptools== make boot - --no-print-directory -r;
  in /Users/kennis/Downloads/ghc-6.0.1/ghc/utils/ghc-pkg
------------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/local/bin/ghc -M -optdep-f -optdep.depend  -osuf o    -H16m -O  
-cpp -DPKG_TOOL -DWANT_PRETTY Main.hs Package.hs ParsePkgConfLite.hs
make all
/usr/local/bin/ghc -H16m -O -cpp -DPKG_TOOL -DWANT_PRETTY    -c  
Package.hs -o Package.o  -ohi Package.hi
Package.hs:1: parse error on input `#'
make[4]: *** [Package.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [boot] Error 2
make[2]: *** [boot] Error 1
make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 1
----- End of Listing 1 -----

----- Start of My Mac -----
I'm running Mac OS 10.2.8 on an 800 MHz PowerPC G3 12" iBook with 384  
MB of memory:

[/Users/kennis] uname -a
Darwin Voxel.local. 6.8 Darwin Kernel Version 6.8: Wed Sep 10 15:20:55  
PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.49.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
[/Users/kennis] gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1493)
----- End of My Mac -----

----- Start of Listing 2 -----
[/Users/kennis] ghci -package util
    ___         ___ _
   / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
  / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.0.1, for Haskell  
98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Loading package lang ... linking ... done.
Loading package concurrent ... linking ... done.
Loading package readline ... linking ...
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.0.1/HSreadline.o: unknown symbol  
`_rl_free_undo_list'
ghc-6.0.1: panic! (the `impossible' happened, GHC version 6.0.1):
         can't load package `readline'
----- End of Listing 2 -----

----- Message Link 1 -----
http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org/ 
msg05041.html
----- End Message Link 1 -----