Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

[Brandon Allbery]

That seems unlikely; it would report a permission error in that case,
not that it had the wrong architecture.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:04 PM George Colpitts
<george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Bill
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> I'm cc'ing GHC dev and GHC users as someone else may have a better answer, catch a mistake I made etc. Please don't delete them.
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> I believe you have encountered https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21506#note_447206
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> I believe the way to fix this is to do the following:
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> rm -fr /usr/local/bin/ghc*
> rm -fr /usr/local/lib/ghc*
> ./configure
> sudo xattr -rc .
> sudo make install
>
>
> However I am unsure why you are encountering this as the issue is supposed to have been fixed.
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> Cheers
> George
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>
>
>
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> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 11:21 AM William McEnaney <bill.mcenaney.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi, George,
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>> I got this message when I ran make install with the sudo command. What should I do?
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>> libHSterminfo-0.4.1.5-ghc9.4.4.dylib” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.
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>> What should I do now?
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>>
>> Thanks.
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>>
>> Bill
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>>
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>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 9:29 AM William McEnaney <bill.mcenaney.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi George,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your reply. I forget what I did to install it. But the compiler and other ghc-related programs live in /usr/local/bin. Since I installed the wrong binaries, I changed the directory to /usr/local/bin and tried to empty that directory with rm -rf ghc*.*, but that didn't delete anything. So I wonder whether I'll need to remove those programs before reinstalling ghc.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help, too.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 7:59 AM George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hi Bill
>>>>
>>>> Yes,GHC will run on your new MacBook Air. The cpu in that is Apple Silicon , the aarch64-apple-darwin platform. Older Macs run on Intel chips, the x86_64-apple-darwin platform.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure how you installed the compiler. I believe the standard way is described on https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/. Can you tell us how you installed it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> George
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 8:22 AM Simon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Redirecting this query to ghc-devs.  Can anyone help William?  Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>> Will GHC run on my new MacBook Air? After installing the compiler, my laptop said its processor was wrong for the binary distribution I chose. If there is a dmg file for MacOS 12.5.1, please please link your reply to it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 23:33, William McEnaney <bill.mcenaney.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Dr. Jones,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will GHC run on my new MacBook Air? After installing the compiler, my laptop said its processor was wrong for the binary distribution I chose. If there is a dmg file for MacOS 12.5.1, please please link your reply to it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
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