[Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.12 on OS X 10.5

[wren ng thornton]

Aaron Tomb wrote:
> I've come across the issue with iconv, as well.
> 
> 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.
> 
> If you set up an installation of GHC 6.12 on OS X (I've only tried 10.5) 
> with no references to /opt/local/lib, everything works fine. If you 
> include /opt/local/lib in the extra-lib-dirs field of your .cabal/config 
> file, it tries to link with the MacPorts version and fails with 
> undefined references.

Is this a problem with *versions* of iconv, or with branches/forks? If 
it's versions, then it seems like migrating to >=1.13 would be good for 
everyone. If it's just branches, do you know whether this afflicts Fink 
users as well as MacPorts users, or should I be the guinea pig to test that?

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~wren