[Haskell-cafe] Problems building lambdabot on osx

[John Lato]

> From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 21:38, Adam Turoff <adam.turoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> First, there's the issue with linking against libiconv, which is solved
>> this
>> way:
>>
>>        cabal install --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/lib
>>
>> That leaves a whole mess of link errors against libHSreadline:
>>
>
> Yes, because now it's finding the system readline, which isn't actually
> readline (Apple ships a "readline" which is actually BSD "editline", so you
> get missing symbols for things editline doesn't support such as completion).
>  I think you'll need to temporarily deactivate MacPorts' iconv instead of
> using --extra-lib-dirs.
>
> This can't really be fixed by either GHC or MacPorts; there doesn't seem to
> be a good solution as yet, although the MacPorts folks may end up
> implementing a hacky solution because Apple has introduced *another*
> MacPorts-breaking library conflict in Lion (libnotify).

Yep, this is Apple's problem and everyone else just has to put up with it.

If you want to mix macports and a non-macports ghc, I think the best
solution is to self-compile ghc against the macports libiconv.  This
is easy, just configure ghc with

./configure --with-iconv-includes=/opt/local/include
--with-iconv-libraries=/opt/local/lib

I haven't had a problem since I started building ghc this way (10.5 and 10.6).

John L.