[Haskell-cafe] Haskell platform installation failure on OS X 10.6.6 (intel)

[Gregory Collins]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Gregory,
>
> Indeed xcode was not installed - however I wonder, why is it a dependency?
> It seems quite a heavyweight thing to require for installing Haskell,
> and this requirement may very well be a good reason to *not* install
> it...

You need a system development toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker,
etc) to run GHC.


> Could you please point me to the ticket you opened? I was not able to google it.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3470

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