Problem using Text.Regex on OS X.

[Carter Schonwald]

What GHC installer on OSX did you use? i think we generally recommend
https://ghcformacosx.github.io/ these days


On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Peter Sumskas <peter at activebilling.com.au>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Haskell so I'm not sure how to solve this issue, yet. I was
> directed to this list from the IRC channel.
>
> Here's the issue:
>
> Using GHCi on OS X:
>
> Prelude Data.Text> :m Text.Regex
> Prelude Text.Regex> let r = mkRegex "_"
> ... eliding successful "Loading package ..." lines ...
> Loading package regex-compat-0.95.1 ... can't load .so/.DLL for:
> /Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.3-x86_64/lib/regex-compat-0.95.1/libHSregex-compat-0.95.1-ghc7.8.3.dylib
> (dlopen(/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.3-x86_64/lib/regex-compat-0.95.1/libHSregex-compat-0.95.1-ghc7.8.3.dylib,
> 9): Library not loaded: @rpath/libHSmtl-2.1.3.1-ghc7.8.3.dylib
>   Referenced from:
> /Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.3-x86_64/lib/regex-compat-0.95.1/libHSregex-compat-0.95.1-ghc7.8.3.dylib
>   Reason: image not found)
>
> After running otool over the regex-compat dylib I can see lines like:
>
> ...
> Load command 24
>           cmd LC_RPATH
>       cmdsize 80
>          path
> /Users/mark/Projects/hp/build/package/mtl-2.1.3.1/build/dist/build (offset
> 12)
> ...
>
> Which is not a path that is relevant to my installation. It was suggested
> that this may be an error in the way packages are being built for OS X.
>
> Whatever the cause, I'm bringing it to the attention of this list in order
> to gain information on what course to take in addressing this issue.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Peter Sumskas.
>
>
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