[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2014 build problems on OS X

[Nicola Gigante]

Il giorno 28/ago/2014, alle ore 01:33, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> basically the problem is theres no one actively "owning" the brew formula for ghc or platform AND also famliar with haskell.  if someone was willing to be the "proactive owner" on the brew formula, i'm happy to help them when they hit tricky OS X issues, but baring that development, I avoid using Brew to manage GHC/Haskell platform like the plague, and advise others thusly. 
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> the Brew GHC formula is painfully out of date and kinda iffy .
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/ghc.rb
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> It still defaults to 7.6 despite 7.6 being hosed on more modern build envs unless you install userland GCC  (which then in turn breaks any haskell package that assumes a suitable mac friendly / objective ), AND the GHC 7.8 version it provides is 7.8.2 which had many nasty bugs and is no .
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> Additionally, theres ZERO good reason to expose "build from source" option for the GHC formula.  AND that has a complicated bootstrap process owing to their focus on 7.6 support, which would go away if they switch to a "7.8 only" motif.
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> the GHC OS X build that Mark used for the newest haskell platform build will work with OS X 10.6-10.1. Doing a binary install of that bindist (./configure --prefix=$brewGHCprefix ; make install; link the executables into path) should be the full extent of the brew formula.
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So, If i can recall correctly:
- They could simplify a lot the process if they’d focus on ghc 7.8 only.
- Anyway, they should forget building from source and provide a formula that installs
  the binary distribution.

Am I correct?

Nicola

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