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 <warrensomeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 many > macports-compiled libraries depend on. > > Work-arounds have been documented in numerous places (notably here: > http://blog.omega-prime.co.uk/?p=96), but if you are trying to link with a > macports-compiled libraries that depends on /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib, > your only alternative seems to be building ghc from source in order to avoid > the incompatibility. I hit this problem while trying to build a > foreign-function interface to libarchive. > > So I built ghc from scratch -- in fact I built the whole haskell-platform. > This was relatively painless, and fixed the libiconv problem. However, it > brings me to the real point of my message, which is that the version of > haskell-platform available via macports is way out of date (2009.2.0.2 > http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=haskell-platform). > > I'm wondering whether the haskell-platform team has considered maintaining a > macports version of the haskell-platform for us mac users in addition to the > binary install that's available now. This would avoid the incompatibilities > such as this nagging one with libiconv. Perhaps it's just a matter of > maintaining template versions of the port files? > > Warren > > Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: > "_locale_charset", referenced from: > _localeEncoding in libHSbase-4.3.1.0.a(PrelIOUtils.o) > "_iconv_close", referenced from: > _hs_iconv_close in libHSbase-4.3.1.0.a(iconv.o) > (maybe you meant: _hs_iconv_close) > "_iconv", referenced from: > _hs_iconv in libHSbase-4.3.1.0.a(iconv.o) > (maybe you meant: _hs_iconv, _hs_iconv_open , _hs_iconv_close ) > "_iconv_open", referenced from: > _hs_iconv_open in libHSbase-4.3.1.0.a(iconv.o) > (maybe you meant: _hs_iconv_open) > ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: > Libarchive-0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: > ExitFailure 1 > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- Push the envelope. Watch it bend. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
