Hello, Not much help, I'm afraid, but for what it's worth: I have built GHC-6.6 and some HEAD-ish version successfully on a PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther?) and also after upgrading to 10.4 Tiger. I have never tried with 10.2. To assist in your difficult decisions, here are some details about the machinery:
Hardware Overview: Machine Name: PowerBook G4 Machine Model: PowerBook3,2 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (11.3) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 400 MHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB Memory: 384 MB Bus Speed: 100 MHz ... Macintosh HD: Capacity: 9.36 GB Available: 1.6 GB ... As you can probably see, this is also quite an old machine, but 10.4 runs comfortably here. Not much disc space left, though: I had to be rather selective when installing. And thanks for the priceless account of your arduous journey. Best regards Thorkil On Friday 29 December 2006 09:37, Kirsten Chevalier wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to build the HEAD on a somewhat old PowerBook G4 running > Mac OS 10.2.1. It would seem that I don't have a new enough version of > gcc: > % gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 3.1 20020420 (prerelease) > and I can't seem to build a newer version of gcc (3.3) due to missing > system include files which I assume (though that assumption may be > wrong) are due to running 10.2 instead of 10.4. (For the full tale of > woe, see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/KirstenSandbox). Am > I right in thinking that building GHC on Mac OS 10.2.1 is more or less > impossible, or has anyone managed to do it? I'm pretty close to just > giving up and buying a PC (various things make it difficult for me to > upgrade to Tiger). > > Thanks, > Kirsten > > -- > Kirsten Chevalier* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Often in error, never in doubt > "Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no > coincidence we call them 'deadlines'." -- Tom Robbins > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
