Can't compile GHC 6.8.2

[Simon Marlow]

Barney Stratford wrote:
>> The workaround is almost certainly to build the RTS with -fasm.
> According to
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/options-phases.html#options-codegen,
> -fasm is the default option anyway, or am I missing something here?
> 
> It looks like this is an issue with the way Apple's version of gcc
> works. The gmp people are complaining bitterly, saying not to use a Mac
> at all.

Do you have a link to something describing the problem?  I didn't turn up 
anything that looked directly relevant, only this:

http://gmplib.org/macos.html

which seems to suggest that problems can be worked around with flags to 
gcc.  We don't use -fno-pic.

Cheers,
	Simon