Segmentation fault trying to build ghc 6.10.1 using macports, Mac OS X 10.5, PPC

[David Menendez]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Gregory Wright <gwright at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Christian Maeder wrote:
>
>> David Menendez wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to upgrade GHC to 6.10.1 using macports on a PowerBook G4
>>> running OS X 10.5.5. From what I can tell, I'm getting a segmentation
>>> fault from cabal-bin.
>>
>> On PPC leopard you need to update to XCode 3.1
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/MacOSX
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2887
>>
>> HTH Christian
>>
>
> It would be very helpful to know if this solves the problem for you.  I've
> had reports
> of similar failures on 10.4, but have not been able to reproduce them on a
> ppc/10.4 machine
> or a ppc/10.5 machine.
>
> Even with Xcode 3.0, it seems as if not everyone gets tagged by the error.

This took care of the problem for me. Thanks.

-- 
Dave Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
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