Thought I'd update you all with the state of the Mac OS X installer for the upcoming HP 2011.x release:
I have built HP installers based on 7.0.2rc2 for both i386 and x86_64 architectures. The remaining issues are: 1) Some of the installed file owner:group settings are 501:501 (usually the first account on the machine) rather than admin:staff. This has no affect on GHC, but it isn't "right". Investigating. 2) I haven't built a disk image with a nice background... The user would just download a .pkg file, and double clicking launches the installer. It would be nicer to do the disk image thing, but low priority for now. 3) The default cabal layout is inconsistent with how the HP installed packages are laid out. This isn't detrimental, just not pretty. My solution is that I 'wrap' the installed cabal command with a shell script that looks to see if the user has a .cabal/config file, and if not, writes a new one there that sets the layout to match the HP layout. Several sub-issues: 3.1) I renamed the real cabal "cabal.inst", and that causes error messages to say that. So - I'm going to have to reference the real cabal in another way so that it can remain named "cabal". 3.2) The new .cabal/config file uses symlink-bindir so that things the user installs will be somewhere on their PATH. The problem is that it turns out that a stock Mac OS X account doesn't have ~/bin (the logical place to point this) on the PATH. So I'll probably point this at /usr/local/bin (which is on the PATH). Still mulling this over... 3.3) Trying to decide if "root-cmd sudo" should be in the new .cabal/config 3.4) I noticed that even when enabled in the .cabal/config file, the haddock master index is NOT rebuilt for --global installs. I suppose this is a cabal issue. 3.5) There is no link from ~/Library/Haskell/doc to ~/Library/Haskell/<ghc-version>/doc. Adding one (at the time the default .cabal/config file is installed) would make finding the haddock master index (rebuilt on --local installs) easier. 4) My installer Makefile doesn't have a concept of ARCH, and so currently must be edited by hand to produce the x86_64 version. 5) When building x86_64, I see this warning repeatedly: "ld: warning: -read_only_relocs cannot be used with x86_64" -- probably ignorable 6) Until we have cabal-install-0.10.0 on hackage, building requires a fair bit of by-hand manipulation of the tree in the middle of the build-installer process. Hoping once that all settles, the build will "just work" - Mark _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
