osx conundrum

[David Duke]

Thanks Steven. Looks like it might be something with my system.
I reinstalled from macports  8.10.7
@ Carter yes I've been carefully   check the compiler version on each trial.
However trying to compile a Haskell source gives the same libHSbase error



ndefined symbols for architecture x86_64:

  "_iconv", referenced from:

      _hs_iconv in libHSbase-4.14.3.0.a(iconv.o





On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 2:54 AM Steven Smith <steve.t.smith at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I’m a maintainer of the MacPorts ghc port. The MacPorts installations do
> not have this issue, whether installed from the buildbot binaries or
> compiled from source, that all work on multiple macOS versions 10.9–11.
> Here’s the build recipe:
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/ghc/Portfile
>
> The iconv symbol issue is known,
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/18752, and packages like
> MacPorts must build around it.
>
> This looks like something specific to your configuration.
>
> If you believe that there is an issue outside your system, please initiate
> a trac ticket at https://trac.macports.org.
>
>
> On Oct 11, 2021, at 5:00 AM, David Duke <duke.j.david at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a conundrum on which advice would be appreciate. Does
> anyone know how to successfully install ghc on OSX
> I've tried various binary instalation routes:
> macports, brew, direct binary downloads from haskel.org
>
>
>

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