[Haskell-cafe] ghc-6.7.20070330 on Mac OS X

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

There is also a special page all about building GHC on MaxOSX
        http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/MacOSX

If it doesn't explain enough about readline (e.g. does it include "the nice post from the blogosphere"?), perhaps someone can enhance it?

In general, when building GHC, the place to look is
        http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
and there are architecture-specific sub-pages.

Do please add painfully-learned information to these wiki pages! thanks

Simon


| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org] On
| Behalf Of Pepe Iborra
| Sent: 01 April 2007 16:50
| To: Ruben Zilibowitz
| Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org Users
| Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc-6.7.20070330 on Mac OS X
|
| (redirecting to glasgow-haskell-users)
|
| It is well known that the readline lib that comes with OS X is no
| good, and you need to use a replacement. A nice post from the
| blogosphere explaining all this:
|
| http://mult.ifario.us/articles/2006/10/17/ghc-6-6-and-mac-os-x-
| readline-quick-fix
|
| If that doesn't help, please post the errors that you get when
| building the readline package.
|
| Cheers
| pepe
|
| On 01/04/2007, at 16:33, Ruben Zilibowitz wrote:
|
| > I am trying to build this version of GHC on Mac OS X. I'm currently
| > using GHC 6.6. The build is failing with the following error:
| >
| > ghci/InteractiveUI.hs:69:7:
| >     Could not find module `System.Console.Readline':
| >       Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
| > <<ghc: 310591992 bytes, 51 GCs, 4238510/9457140 avg/max bytes
| > residency (4 samples), 26M in use, 0.02 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 2.11
| > MUT (15.73 elapsed), 0.31 GC (0.36 elapsed) :ghc>>
| > make[2]: *** [depend] Error 1
| > make[1]: *** [stage2] Error 2
| > make: *** [bootstrap2] Error 2
| >
| > So it seems I need to install the Readline library. But building
| > the Readline library is also giving me errors on my system.
| >
| > Just wondering if someone else has managed to build ghc-6.7.x on
| > Mac OS X? If so, what did you need to do?
| >
| > Cheers,
| >
| > Ruben
| >
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