#3400: OS X: ghc broken on Snow Leopard
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Reporter: bbb | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.10.4
Severity: critical | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Os: MacOS X
Architecture: x86 |
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Comment (by Syzygies):
I'm posting some links of interest, for the many of us finding this ticket
on Snow Leopard's release day.
This ticket is closely related to ticket #2965 (new feature request)
[http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2965 GHC on OS X does not
compile 64-bit]
One can show one's support for this request by adding one's email to its
cc: list.
There is an active Haskell Cafe thread, with more detailed directions on
the fix given here:
[http://www.nabble.com/Snow-Leopard-Breaks-GHC-td25198347.html Snow
Leopard Breaks GHC]
One sees comments elsewhere, e.g. on reddit posts, to the effect of
"aren't most OS X users just 2 core tourists on 2 GB MacBooks"? Meanwhile,
as GHC emerges as the only credible choice for a parallel language (add a
couple of lines of code, and it ''just works''), what I've seen makes OS X
appear to be the only credible choice for a parallel operating system:
[http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-
users/2009-April/017050.html No "last core parallel slowdown" on OS X]
OS X self-identifies as a 64-bit operating system, yet GHC support is
limited to 32-bits. It would be nice if there was a status somewhere
between (closed) and (new feature request) in tone, that recognized the
outdated state of GHC support for OS X.
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