On Oct 3, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 16:51 -0700, Mark Lentczner wrote: >> In preparation for building the Haskell Platform 2011.3.0.0 installer for >> Mac OS X, I've run into a snag: The GHC central distributed version of 7.0.4 >> can't produce running executables. The problem comes at final link time, >> which fails with this message: >> >> ld: pointer in read-only segment not allowed in slidable image, used in >> ___gmpn_modexact_1c_odd from >> /Users/markl/Projects/platform/hp-mac/src/macos/dist/root/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/7.0.4-x86_64/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.4/integer-gmp-0.2.0.3/libHSinteger-gmp-0.2.0.3.a(mode1o.o) >> >> I think what this means is that something about the built version of >> HSinteger-gmp in the 7.0.4 distribution isn't compatible with code compiled >> on my system. I'm running Xcode 3.2.3 on OS 10.7. Googling of this error >> resulted in other projects having this problem with libgmp compilations, but >> usually the issue was some conflict between macports versions of GMP vs. a >> non-macports version. Was the 7.0.4 release built on a macports based build? >> >> I'm guessing I'm going to have to build GHC 7.0.4 from source for the >> Haskell Platform build. >> >> I'm wondering - what are other people's experiences of using 7.0.4 on Mac OS >> X. > > I'd like to hear some more noise about this issue. If we can't use 7.0.4 > on OSX we're really stuffed. > > Duncan
For reference, I was able to compile and run a simple "Hello, World" program with GHC 7.0.4 (64-bit) on MacOS 10.6.8. Presumably the problem is specific to MacOS 10.7. Ezra _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
