On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 18:30, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > The new ghc infrastructure is broken on 10.6, and at a quick glance, it looks > like it starts building at 10.8, which is actually not too bad, and better > than I thought: <https://ports.macports.org/port/ghc/builds> > > I am not sure if i will ever get around to trying to fix the older systems, > and I would doubt if anyone else ever will. It might or might not be possible > to do so. > > There was some minor talk of resurrecting the ghc v7 infrastructure, but I > think that is a dead duck idea as the whole family of hs-* ports needed for > it are disappearing too. > > So -- you might be out-of-luck there, unless I break my leg or something :>
I guess this would be required to support 10.7 and older: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/cross-compilation We would need a newer machine to backport to 10.6 first, then from 10.6 do the rest of i386/ppc if necessary. This one seems to have been compiled on 10.7: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_8_4#macosx_x86_64 Support for the hs-* family might be feasible with Karan's work (he will also be at the MacPorts meeting in Slovenia in October), but it probably won't help a bit without a suitable compiler running on that platform. Mojca
