[Haskell-cafe] success on a slightly modified version of your suggestion for 21506

[Carter Schonwald]

that matches my experience, namely that i've successfully installed ghc
9.2.2 on osx 12.4 aka monterey a few times

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:59 PM George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ben
>
> Thanks for the quick responses particularly on the weekend before your
> vacation.
>
> you wrote:
>
> What happens
> if you try to install to do something like (in the extracted binary
> distribution),
>
>
>     $ ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/tmp
>     $ make install            # this will fail
>     $ xattr -rc .
>     $ make install            # perhaps this will finish successfully?
>     # tmp/bin/ghc --version   # GHC should be usable
>
>
> success on both my machines using a slightly modified version of your
> suggestion above for 21506:
>
>  ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/tmp    # specifying ./tmp seems to be critical
>
> xattr -rc .                                        # seems to be necessary
> also
>
> sudo make install                           # seems to works , output ends
> with "recache"
>
> ./tmp/bin/ghc --version                  # success , although admittedly
> the smallest smoke test possible
>
> You wrote:
>
> >
> Ultimately I think we may just need to bite the bullet and start
> properly notarising/codesigning releases (resolving #17418). At this point
> we have
> spent more time trying to avoid the notarisation requirement than
> it would likely take to satisfy it. Unfortunately, this will require
> that I find an Apple device somewhere which may take a few weeks.
>
>
> I'm afraid I am on holiday next week but I would quite grateful if we
> could arrange for a chat after I return such that we can debug this in
> realtime.
>
>
> Sure, we can chat when you return from your vacation.
>
> Not sure if it is worth trying to fix the release on the basis of what I
> write above. My opinion is: it is if we can get reports of at least one
> other person having this issue. I am fine with not doing this for 9.4.1
>
> I agree that we should raise the priority of "notarising/codesigning
> releases (resolving #17418)". My opinion is that it is not worth delaying
> 9.4.1 for this.
>
> Have a great vacation.
>
> Cheers
> George
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 11:33 AM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
>> George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > +Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp>
>> >
>> > Hi Ben
>> >
>> > My 2 machines also have:
>> >
>> > $ spctl --status
>> > assessments enabled
>> >
>> Hmm, interesting. Then I am truly perplexed.
>>
>> > Speculations:
>> >
>> >
>> /usr/local/lib/ghc-9.4.0.20220721/bin/../lib/x86_64-osx-ghc-9.4.0.20220721/libHSterminfo-0.4.1.5-ghc9.4.0.20220721.dylib
>> > is created after xattr -rc . was run so it doesn't have the necessary
>> > attributes. Is it possible that ghc developers and/or the test machines
>> > have this file on another of the paths in the error message and that is
>> why
>> > it works for them?
>> >
>> I'm not sure where this would be but at this point anything is possible.
>> What happens
>> if you try to install to do something like (in the extracted binary
>> distribution),
>>
>>     $ ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/tmp
>>     $ make install            # this will fail
>>     $ xattr -rc .
>>     $ make install            # perhaps this will finish successfully?
>>     # tmp/bin/ghc --version   # GHC should be usable
>>
>> > I hope I didn't offend you by asking if the fix had been tested; I
>> assume
>> > it had been but I thought it was important to rule that out.
>> >
>> Not to worry; it's a very reasonable question to ask given the
>> circumstances.
>>
>> > More than happy to test. I really appreciate all the work you and others
>> > have put into GHC !
>> >
>> Ultimately I think we may just need to bite the bullet and start
>> properly notarising/codesigning releases (resolving #17418). At this
>> point we have
>> spent more time trying to avoid the notarisation requirement than
>> it would likely take to satisfy it. Unfortunately, this will require
>> that I find an Apple device somewhere which may take a few weeks.
>>
>> I'm afraid I am on holiday next week but I would quite grateful if we
>> could arrange for a chat after I return such that we can debug this in
>> realtime.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
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