I assume that many haskell users out there on macs who are also users of
macports, and I bet they've hit this same issue that I've hit numerous times.
The problem is that there are 2 incompatible versions of libiconv -- one that
ships with the mac, and one that's built with macports and that
If you're not otherwise attached to MacPorts, you might want to check
out Homebrew [1]. Its integration with the rest of OS X is generally
more smoothly and I haven't come across any missing packages yet.
[1]: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
On 22 March 2012 16:34, Warren Harris
Thomas,
Thanks for the recommendation. I tried installing with homebrew, and it went
fairly smoothly. Only 12 minutes to build haskell-platform, as opposed to the
11 hours to run port upgrade outdated yesterday!
I did have to get help on one thing though. Although the mac ships with
