On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generow...@cern.ch> wrote: > So, after this tale of agony, here are two concrete questions: > > a) Am I right in concluding that GHC 7.0.3 will not run on OS X 10.5 > (without unreasonable effort)?
This is a frustrating situation. Note that there is a binary for 7.0.1 that supports 10.5 <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_0_1#macosxintel>. From this, you should be able to build 7.0.3 yourself. One minor note: if you're interested in LLVM, stick to the 32-bit build.! If you encounter problems, #haskell will help. As for the platform, if it is giving you trouble, don't shy away from just using GHC and cabal as normal! After you've cabal installed a few big packages, you will find that you've acquired many of the most popular packages. > b) On Ubuntu Natty I installed the generic linux GHC 7.0.3 binary. > Downloaded Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 source distribution. ./configure > worked happily. make fails as follows. > > Building transformers-0.2.2.0 > "/usr/local/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1/bin/ghc" "--make" "Setup" "-o" > "Setup" "-package" "Cabal-1.10.1.0" > <command line>: cannot satisfy -package Cabal-1.10.1.0: > Cabal-1.10.1.0-1fb2094e19492373b1a39284193e7984 is unusable due to > missing or recursive dependencies: > process-1.0.1.5-55dfaccf3a91c4cb8f6284a0bafef198 The Ubuntu HP story is a bit of a gotcha for the innocent user, too. But, again, you can happily install GHC 7.0.3, and then cabal install your way to happiness. The problem you encountered seems due to a conflict among packages that came with GHC. I think your strategy of nuking everything Haskell through your package manager (if available), then manually (not forgetting ~/.ghc and ~/.cabal) was prudent to get out of the hole you found yourself in. But don't let HP installation troubles keep you away from Haskell altogether! Anthony _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe