Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Simon Marlow wrote: Christian Maeder wrote: #!/bin/sh reldir=`dirname $0` topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)` There's no guarantee that $0 holds anything reasonable: you can set $0 to whatever you like when calling exec*(). The above script simply does not work, if it is linked to from another place. (I don't know if that's related to exec, but I see the problem now.) Christian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Ian Lynagh wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:02:55PM +, C.M.Brown wrote: Is there a way for GHC on OS X to find where it was run from, so that it can find package.conf? The command: ghc --print-libdir should do it. But the way that knows what to print on unix machines is that ghc is a shell script wrapper which passes -Blibdir to the real GHC binary. If you want to be able to move GHC around then the wrapper can't have the path hardcoded. The wrapper could call `pwd` to find out the current path. Christian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: this year are discharged (ie, in about two weeks). Secondly, the really unsatisfactory thing about frameworks for readline and gmp is that it entails that programs compiled with GHC will also depend on at least the GMP framework. I'd really like to have a story that extends nicely to programs built with GHC. In fact, that was our reason to create the GNUreadline framework in the first place. We found it easier to (ask our users to) copy such a framework into their home directories than to update their libraries with root privileges. Christian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Christian Maeder wrote: Ian Lynagh wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:02:55PM +, C.M.Brown wrote: Is there a way for GHC on OS X to find where it was run from, so that it can find package.conf? The command: ghc --print-libdir should do it. But the way that knows what to print on unix machines is that ghc is a shell script wrapper which passes -Blibdir to the real GHC binary. If you want to be able to move GHC around then the wrapper can't have the path hardcoded. The wrapper could call `pwd` to find out the current path. pwd gives you the directory that the script was invoked *from*, not the directory in which the script resides. This is a common problem on Unix: there's no general way to find out the location of a binary. Well that's not entirely true. On Linux you have /proc/pid/exe, and on Solaris you have getexecname(). Does MacOS X have anything? Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Simon Marlow wrote: Christian Maeder wrote: Ian Lynagh wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:02:55PM +, C.M.Brown wrote: Is there a way for GHC on OS X to find where it was run from, so that it can find package.conf? The command: ghc --print-libdir should do it. But the way that knows what to print on unix machines is that ghc is a shell script wrapper which passes -Blibdir to the real GHC binary. If you want to be able to move GHC around then the wrapper can't have the path hardcoded. The wrapper could call `pwd` to find out the current path. pwd gives you the directory that the script was invoked *from*, not the directory in which the script resides. This is a common problem on Unix: there's no general way to find out the location of a binary. Next attempt: How about `dirname $0`? Christian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Nov 19, 2007 10:35 AM, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pwd gives you the directory that the script was invoked *from*, not the directory in which the script resides. This is a common problem on Unix: there's no general way to find out the location of a binary. Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with pwd for relative ones. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Alfonso Acosta wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with pwd for relative ones. #!/bin/sh reldir=`dirname $0` topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)` should do. Christian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Christian Maeder wrote: Alfonso Acosta wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with pwd for relative ones. #!/bin/sh reldir=`dirname $0` topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)` There's no guarantee that $0 holds anything reasonable: you can set $0 to whatever you like when calling exec*(). Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Simon, as usual, is right. It's been quite a while since I last seriously coded in C. From the exec* man page: The first argument, *by convention*, should point to the file name associated with the file being executed. However, if nothing better is found I guess it's better to rely on an extended convention rather than hardcoding paths. On Nov 19, 2007 11:40 AM, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Maeder wrote: Alfonso Acosta wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with pwd for relative ones. #!/bin/sh reldir=`dirname $0` topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)` There's no guarantee that $0 holds anything reasonable: you can set $0 to whatever you like when calling exec*(). Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
An additional sanity check of topdir makes sense then. Christian Alfonso Acosta wrote: Simon, as usual, is right. It's been quite a while since I last seriously coded in C. From the exec* man page: The first argument, *by convention*, should point to the file name associated with the file being executed. However, if nothing better is found I guess it's better to rely on an extended convention rather than hardcoding paths. On Nov 19, 2007 11:40 AM, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Maeder wrote: Alfonso Acosta wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with pwd for relative ones. #!/bin/sh reldir=`dirname $0` topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)` There's no guarantee that $0 holds anything reasonable: you can set $0 to whatever you like when calling exec*(). Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
ghc/haskell tool registry (was: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard))
may i suggest a different approach? most shells have commands to list programs in PATH beyond the first match, such as 'whereis ssh', 'which -a ssh', or 'type -a ssh'. now, this won't help directly because the ghc tool in question might not be on the PATH. but as this issue is so widespread, one could extend one of the existing haskell package registries (ghc-pkg, cabal) to cover haskell tools as well. every haskell tool would know how to register itself with its current location, and how to query the haskell tool registry for the location of other tools (preferably from the same build/version). since we're on the ghc list: ghc-tools (un-)register path/ghcversion ghc-tools list ghcversion ghc-tools describe runhaskell ghc-tools field location ghc-6.9 ghc-tools field user_guide ghc-6.9 .. pros: - knowing your version would be sufficient to find all the tools from your bundle - finding all available haskell tools would be easy downsides: - tools would have to register themselves after installation/relocation, and unregister during uninstall - there is no single ghc-pkg/cabal instance to choose, but multiple versions.. the former is no worse than for packages, the latter is a runhaskell-style issue: we want a single ghc-tools in the path, but we don't care who provides it. claus - Original Message - From: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christian Maeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]; GHC List glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:35 AM Subject: Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Christian Maeder wrote: Ian Lynagh wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:02:55PM +, C.M.Brown wrote: Is there a way for GHC on OS X to find where it was run from, so that it can find package.conf? The command: ghc --print-libdir should do it. But the way that knows what to print on unix machines is that ghc is a shell script wrapper which passes -Blibdir to the real GHC binary. If you want to be able to move GHC around then the wrapper can't have the path hardcoded. The wrapper could call `pwd` to find out the current path. pwd gives you the directory that the script was invoked *from*, not the directory in which the script resides. This is a common problem on Unix: there's no general way to find out the location of a binary. Well that's not entirely true. On Linux you have /proc/pid/exe, and on Solaris you have getexecname(). Does MacOS X have anything? Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
If you want to get the path to the main executable on Mac OS X, use _NSGetExecutablePath. See: man 3 dyld Deborah On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:07 AM, Christian Maeder wrote: An additional sanity check of topdir makes sense then. Christian Alfonso Acosta wrote: Simon, as usual, is right. It's been quite a while since I last seriously coded in C. From the exec* man page: The first argument, *by convention*, should point to the file name associated with the file being executed. However, if nothing better is found I guess it's better to rely on an extended convention rather than hardcoding paths. On Nov 19, 2007 11:40 AM, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Maeder wrote: Alfonso Acosta wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with pwd for relative ones. #!/bin/sh reldir=`dirname $0` topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)` There's no guarantee that $0 holds anything reasonable: you can set $0 to whatever you like when calling exec*(). Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Deborah Goldsmith wrote, If you want to get the path to the main executable on Mac OS X, use _NSGetExecutablePath. See: man 3 dyld That's exactly what we need. The man page is on the web for those without a mac: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/dyld.3.html Thanks Deborah! Manuel On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:07 AM, Christian Maeder wrote: An additional sanity check of topdir makes sense then. Christian Alfonso Acosta wrote: Simon, as usual, is right. It's been quite a while since I last seriously coded in C. From the exec* man page: The first argument, *by convention*, should point to the file name associated with the file being executed. However, if nothing better is found I guess it's better to rely on an extended convention rather than hardcoding paths. On Nov 19, 2007 11:40 AM, Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Maeder wrote: Alfonso Acosta wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 10:51 AM, Alfonso Acosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you can always combine the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with with pwd for relative ones. I meant _use_ the first argument of the script ($0) for absolute paths and combine it with pwd for relative ones. #!/bin/sh reldir=`dirname $0` topdir=`(cd $reldir; pwd)` There's no guarantee that $0 holds anything reasonable: you can set $0 to whatever you like when calling exec*(). Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Christian Maeder: Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: I wasn't expecting any backwards compatibility from Leopard-built software to Tiger, but then I am also a Mac-noob and maybe there are ways to achieve that that I don't know of. Any suggestions? Could you, or someone else with Leopard, check if my Tiger binary distribution is useable? (or what the problems are?) I didn't try, but I guess, it would lead to the same problems as your GHC 6.6.1 distribution caused on Leopard (ie, linker error complaining about _environ). The problem there was, I think, the GMP framework. What we really need is a proper .mpkg, but at the moment, I don't have time for that. I've found that page http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html It would help if we could at least agree on using frameworks or dylibs for readline and gmp. That'll be important for any installer. Maybe ghc could also support private frameworks (in conjunction with http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1798). The above binary first of all was meant to help bootstrapping GHC for people who upgraded to Leopard and have problems (which it seemed on irc, there were a few of). Fair enough, but the current state under http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_681.html#macosxintel is worse compared to version 6.6.1 when http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1540 was created. I agree, we need to do something about that. There are two reasons why I haven't done anything yet. Firstly, I have been to busy with other things, but that hopefully changes when all my teaching obligations for this year are discharged (ie, in about two weeks). Secondly, the really unsatisfactory thing about frameworks for readline and gmp is that it entails that programs compiled with GHC will also depend on at least the GMP framework. I'd really like to have a story that extends nicely to programs built with GHC. Otherwise, if we produce a mpkg, I don't it doesn't matter much what the internal structure is. An mpkg can contain sub-packages for frameworks internally (which will be automatically installed) if not yet present. Manuel ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Christian Maeder: Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: What we really need is a proper .mpkg How about a simple disk image (.dmg) that can be moved around as long as the relative paths within the image remain the same? This would require to allow relative paths in package.conf files (which would be useful, anyway). The wrapper scripts for ghc, ghci and ghc- pkg could be easily rewritten. I'm not sure if ranlib needs to be called, whenever the archives are moved. A dmg makes it potentially harder to deal with readline and gmp, as a mpkg can embed other sub-packages. Secondly, if you look at the installation process of binary distributions, it does run code in order to re-locate GHC. With an mpkg we can have a post-install script. Manuel ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: This would require to allow relative paths in package.conf files (which would be useful, anyway). The wrapper scripts for ghc, ghci and ghc-pkg could be easily rewritten. I'm not sure if ranlib needs to be called, whenever the archives are moved. Are there other problems? Is there a way for GHC on OS X to find where it was run from, so that it can find package.conf? Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Ian, Is there a way for GHC on OS X to find where it was run from, so that it can find package.conf? The command: ghc --print-libdir should do it. Cheers, Chris. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:02:55PM +, C.M.Brown wrote: Is there a way for GHC on OS X to find where it was run from, so that it can find package.conf? The command: ghc --print-libdir should do it. But the way that knows what to print on unix machines is that ghc is a shell script wrapper which passes -Blibdir to the real GHC binary. If you want to be able to move GHC around then the wrapper can't have the path hardcoded. Thanks Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: What we really need is a proper .mpkg How about a simple disk image (.dmg) that can be moved around as long as the relative paths within the image remain the same? This would require to allow relative paths in package.conf files (which would be useful, anyway). The wrapper scripts for ghc, ghci and ghc-pkg could be easily rewritten. I'm not sure if ranlib needs to be called, whenever the archives are moved. Are there other problems? Cheers Christian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: I wasn't expecting any backwards compatibility from Leopard-built software to Tiger, but then I am also a Mac-noob and maybe there are ways to achieve that that I don't know of. Any suggestions? Could you, or someone else with Leopard, check if my Tiger binary distribution is useable? (or what the problems are?) What we really need is a proper .mpkg, but at the moment, I don't have time for that. I've found that page http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html It would help if we could at least agree on using frameworks or dylibs for readline and gmp. That'll be important for any installer. Maybe ghc could also support private frameworks (in conjunction with http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1798). The above binary first of all was meant to help bootstrapping GHC for people who upgraded to Leopard and have problems (which it seemed on irc, there were a few of). Fair enough, but the current state under http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_681.html#macosxintel is worse compared to version 6.6.1 when http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1540 was created. Yes, again. Any suggestions? Christian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: I wasn't expecting any backwards compatibility from Leopard-built software to Tiger, but then I am also a Mac-noob and maybe there are ways to achieve that that I don't know of. Any suggestions? Sorry, I missed this the first time around... To build binaries on Leopard that are compatible with previous releases of Mac OS X, you need to use the appropriate SDK parameters when invoking gcc (for includes) and the linker (for libraries). This is described in the context of building a universal binary in: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/PortingUnix/compiling/chapter_4_section_3.html#/ /apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002850-BAJCFEBA but the same concepts (-isysroot for gcc and -Wl,-syslibroot for ld) apply to building against any SDK. An SDK is basically a copy of the frameworks and libraries for a particular OS release, but the libraries are just stubs to link against. By pointing gcc and ld at an SDK, you use the correct headers and entry points for a particular release. Caveat: I don't know how use of SDKs interacts with use of non-system libraries (e.g., in /opt/local or /Library/Frameworks). Another approach is to set MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED to MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_4 (or whatever). You then have to be careful about how you use APIs that are new in Leopard. I would think the SDK approach would be easier for something like ghc. If you don't do anything, by default binaries built on a particular Mac OS X release will only run on that release or later. Deborah ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Benedikt, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 Thanks, it's great you provided a binary distribution, especially since macports' ghc seems to be broken on Leopard at the moment. I had one little problem when linking with a dynamic library though (darwin9 / i386): ghc --make -O -hidir build/ifaces -odir build/objs Foreign/ YicesTest.hs -o bin/YicesTest -optl -fexceptions -lstdc++ -lyices Linking bin/YicesTest ... ld: absolute addressing (perhaps -mdynamic-no-pic) used in ___gmpn_divexact_1 from ghc-6.8.1-dir/lib/ghc-6.8.1/ libgmp.a(dive_1.o) not allowed in slidable image I don't know if this is a known problem and what causes it, and I'm not sure what it means; However, replacing the 'libgmp.a' you've distributed with a recently compiled one from macports (gmp 4.2.2_0) resolved the problem for me. I am sorry, but I am a bit out of my depth here. Specifically, I don't know much about the mac linker. Maybe somebody with some more experience in that area can shed light on this problem. Manuel ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:29:05PM +1100, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available Thanks Manuel! I've put it on the download page. Ian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 Thanks, it's great you provided a binary distribution, especially since macports' ghc seems to be broken on Leopard at the moment. I had one little problem when linking with a dynamic library though (darwin9 / i386): ghc --make -O -hidir build/ifaces -odir build/objs Foreign/ YicesTest.hs -o bin/YicesTest -optl -fexceptions -lstdc++ -lyices Linking bin/YicesTest ... ld: absolute addressing (perhaps -mdynamic-no-pic) used in ___gmpn_divexact_1 from ghc-6.8.1-dir/lib/ghc-6.8.1/ libgmp.a(dive_1.o) not allowed in slidable image I don't know if this is a known problem and what causes it, and I'm not sure what it means; However, replacing the 'libgmp.a' you've distributed with a recently compiled one from macports (gmp 4.2.2_0) resolved the problem for me. Benedikt ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Don Stewart wrote: It seems 10.5/PPC/6.8 is currently a lethal combination. (not x86 though, nor 10.4/ppc). Here's the ticket, add yourself to the CC list. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1843 We need a Mac hero (or heroes) who can diagnose and fix this problem. Any takers? You stand to earn the gratitude of the Mac/GHC community! Cheers, Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Nov 8, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: We need a Mac hero (or heroes) who can diagnose and fix this problem. Any takers? You stand to earn the gratitude of the Mac/ GHC community! My PPC Mac is thousands of miles away but if anyone can give me SSH access to their PPC/Leopard box, I could take a look. -- http://wagerlabs.com ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Christian Maeder wrote: I've tried to install your package, but already configure failed with: I successfully installed this package a few times on the same machine. -- http://wagerlabs.com ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Joel Reymont wrote: On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Christian Maeder wrote: I've tried to install your package, but already configure failed with: I successfully installed this package a few times on the same machine. My failure was on a Tiger and your success with Leopard. C. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
You do not perchance have one for powerpc, do you? I attempted to bootstrap from GHC 6.6.1, but I keep getting errors about Illegal Instructions, Try to force ./configure --build=powerpc-mac-darwin or whatever is appropriate under MacOS --- without it, ./configure will identify the target as powerpc64-... --- just give it a try without the 64. (This is what I need with 32bit userland under linux.) Otherwise try adding GhcUnregisterised=YES SplitObjs=NO to mk/build.mk. Wolfram ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Brian P. O'Hanlon wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 1:29 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 You do not perchance have one for powerpc, do you? I attempted to bootstrap from GHC 6.6.1, but I keep getting errors about Illegal Instructions, both using the native gcc 4.0 and my own 4.2 compiler. The error is like this: I am also failing to compile ghc-6.8.1 for a powerpc (G4 powerbook). I am giving a try to leave out the extra src tarball to see if that avoids it dying again while trying to compile parsec. Of course, it takes many hours to try to compile. -- Chris ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
On Nov 6, 2007 1:29 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 You do not perchance have one for powerpc, do you? I attempted to bootstrap from GHC 6.6.1, but I keep getting errors about Illegal Instructions, both using the native gcc 4.0 and my own 4.2 compiler. The error is like this: Creating main/Config.hs ... done. Creating stage1/ghc_boot_platform.h... Done. /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -E -undef -traditional -P -I../includes-x c prelude/primops.txt.pp | \ grep -v '^#pragma GCC' prelude/primops.txt ../utils/genprimopcode/genprimopcode --data-decl prelude/primops.txt primop-data-decl.hs-incl /bin/sh: line 1: 25386 Illegal instruction ../utils/genprimopcode/genprimopcode --data-decl prelude/primops.txt primop-data-decl.hs-incl It is rather odd... am I missing something? Thanks a lot! -Brian ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Christian Maeder: Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 The name of a binary distribution for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) would be the same. I've tried to install your package, but already configure failed with: checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 Which we'll further canonicalise into: i386-apple-darwin checking for path to top of build tree... configure: error: cannot determine current directory because utils/pwd/pwd results in a Bus error I wasn't expecting any backwards compatibility from Leopard-built software to Tiger, but then I am also a Mac-noob and maybe there are ways to achieve that that I don't know of. Any suggestions? As for the name of the file. The GNU-style arch-vendor-os triples do generally not distinguish between OS versions (same deal on Linux). Hence, I added the version information as meta information in my email. What we really need is a proper .mpkg, but at the moment, I don't have time for that. The above binary first of all was meant to help bootstrapping GHC for people who upgraded to Leopard and have problems (which it seemed on irc, there were a few of). Manuel PS: Some people asked about a pcc binary. I am sorry, but I only have got an x86 mac. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brian P. O'Hanlon wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 1:29 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 You do not perchance have one for powerpc, do you? I attempted to bootstrap from GHC 6.6.1, but I keep getting errors about Illegal Instructions, both using the native gcc 4.0 and my own 4.2 compiler. The error is like this: I am also failing to compile ghc-6.8.1 for a powerpc (G4 powerbook). I am giving a try to leave out the extra src tarball to see if that avoids it dying again while trying to compile parsec. Of course, it takes many hours to try to compile. I have no experience with PPC. In any case, trying to compile a minimal system (ie, no extra libs) seems a good idea. Manuel ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 To use it, you need two other pieces of software installed: Xcode 3.0-- as available from the Leopard upgrade/install DVD or developer.apple.com readline 5.2 -- preferably installed via macports in /opt/local Moreover, if you have the GMP.framework installed (a leftover from 10.4), remove it first. To install, follow the instructions at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/installing-bin-distrib.html#id3132713 Happy Haskell Hacking! Manuel -=- GHC on Mac OS X 10.5 mini FAQ: * When trying to compile GHC, I get a segv on Float.lhs (of the base package is compiled). Why? AFAIK this only happens if the GHC you try to bootstrap with is too old (eg, 6.6). * With the binary distribution why do I get a link error complaining about _environ? You still have the GMP framework installed. It was linked against an old libc, which causes the error. Remove the GMP framework. * What GMP library is used? GHC 6.8.1 includes an embedded GMP library (ie, it's bundled with the source). It is compiled as a static library and placed into the GHC install tree. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
