[Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.12 on OS X 10.5

[Aaron Tomb]

On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2009, at 17:39 , Aaron Tomb wrote:
>> The problem seems to be that some versions of iconv define  
>> iconv_open and some related functions as macros (that then call  
>> libiconv_open, etc.), and some versions of iconv have exported  
>> functions for everything. In particular, the iconv bundled with OS  
>> X (1.11) defines iconv_open, but the iconv installed with MacPorts  
>> (1.13) does not. The binary package for GHC 6.12.1 seems to have  
>> been compiled on a system without MacPorts, and therefore  
>> references iconv_open (etc.) from the Apple-distributed version of  
>> the library.
>
> Perhaps the best fix for this is to submit an updated GHC port to  
> MacPorts.

This is certainly a possibility. I believe that a GHC built against  
MacPorts would work properly on a system with MacPorts installed.  
However, the downside of that approach is that any binary compiled  
with such a GHC could _only_ be run on a system with MacPorts installed.

I'd love to have a GHC that would play nicely with MacPorts, but not  
depend on it unless necessary (where "necessary" means "when I use a  
package that links to a C library only available via MacPorts")

Aaron