Re: GHC build failures on Mac OS X Leopard: ppc x86

2008-02-18 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Sean Leather: I tried to build GHC stable on my two computers, a PowerBook G4 and a MacBook, both running 10.5.2. This is the first time I've ever tried, so I'm somewhat clueless about a lot of it. I went with the basic instructions (./configure; make) with no 'mk/build.mk' and no configure

Re: GHC build failures on Mac OS X Leopard: ppc x86

2008-02-18 Thread Sean Leather
Hi, Manuel M T Chakravarty: I can't help you with the PPC, but on the MacBook try building with make EXTRA_AR_ARGS=-s It's a known bug with Cabal. Thanks, Manuel, it builds now. Afterwards, I ran 'make' in 'testsuite/tests/ghc-regress' and got this: OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started

Re: GHC build failures on Mac OS X Leopard: ppc x86

2008-02-18 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Sean Leather: Manuel M T Chakravarty: I can't help you with the PPC, but on the MacBook try building with make EXTRA_AR_ARGS=-s It's a known bug with Cabal. Thanks, Manuel, it builds now. Afterwards, I ran 'make' in 'testsuite/tests/ghc-regress' and got this: OVERALL SUMMARY for test

GHC build failures on Mac OS X Leopard: ppc x86

2008-02-17 Thread Sean Leather
Hi, I tried to build GHC stable on my two computers, a PowerBook G4 and a MacBook, both running 10.5.2. This is the first time I've ever tried, so I'm somewhat clueless about a lot of it. I went with the basic instructions (./configure; make) with no 'mk/build.mk' and no configure options other