[Haskell-cafe] GHC exceeding command line length limit with split-objs - and a possible fix

[Eugene Kirpichov]

Thanks, looks like I already succeeded by downloading xcode 3.

Now my original question remains - is such a change a good idea?
(I've already found the place in code where the fix has to be made; should
take an hour of work at most)

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Hans Aberg <haberg-1 at telia.com> wrote:

> On 11 Jan 2012, at 13:38, John Lato wrote:
>
> > I used https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/downloads to
> > get a real gcc on Lion.  Biggish download, but it worked.  I've also
> > seen reports of success by self-compiling gcc, or by installing XCode
> > 4 on top of an existing XCode 3 installation.
>
> GCC 4.6.2 builds on OS X 10.7 with Xcode 4.2. Build GMP 5.0.2 with clang,
> and then GCC with /usr/bin/gcc -> llvm-gcc-4.2. I think I saw someone guild
> GCC 4.7, but this is highest stable.
>
> Hans
>
> >> From: Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Oh well... looks like building ghc won't be easy, as it doesn't build
> with
> >> llvm-gcc and it's not easy to get a "real" gcc on Lion. But I don't stop
> >> trying :)
>
>
>


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Eugene Kirpichov
Principal Engineer, Mirantis Inc. http://www.mirantis.com/
Editor, http://fprog.ru/
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