[Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

[Carter Schonwald]

glad to help.

an alternative for the discerning power user is to install a recent version
of gcc locally (eg 4.8), and build 7.6.3 with that! (or just repoint your
ghc settings file to a locally built version of real gcc.)

yes, assuming we have the time (after all, it's all volunteer time), that
is the plan.


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Adam Foltzer <acfoltzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Carter,
>
> Thanks for this heads up! Many of us here are cutting edge Mac users, and
> would have been bitten by this.
>
> Darin and I plan to spend some time next month preparing an unofficial
>> patched version of ghc 7.6 that should play nice with clang / xcode 5,
>> though at such a time ghc 7.8 will be in RC status at the very least.
>
>
> Can this be backported to the 7.6.3 tag and released as 7.6.4? It would be
> nice to not have to choose between running the latest xcode and the ability
> to test multiple GHC versions.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
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