cpatti: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > > wmacgyver: > > I have a stupid question. > > > > Does building ghc/haskell platform requires some special voodoo? > > > > Since the binary distro for haskell platform clearly works for OSX. > > > > But why is it that both macports and homebrew seems to > > never work like clockwork? > > > > I use macports for erlang, python and heck, even sbcl. > > and it's updated pretty timely and builds out of the box every time. > > > > I can understand with python is due to the large size > > community, but surely erlang/sbcl on OSX can't be a > > much larger community compared to haskell user? > > I'm not sure there is an active MacPorts maintainer -- while we do have > an active Mac installer maintainer. > > Any volunteers? > > -- Don > > > > > FWIW the Homebrew formula is just fine. > > It encapsulates the generic source tarball, which fails to compile under OSX > latest. > > It's also actively maintained, and when I pursued the error with them, they > correctly indicated that the problem was up stream in the Haskell Platform > distro. > > So, this is the root problem here. >
So what patch does the binary installer have, that the generic installer doesn't? Let me know. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
