Re: Weird failure of ghc-7.0.2 on OS X 10.5 using the bindist tarball

2011-03-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
It turns out that even an i386 build made on 10.6 won't work on 10.5: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4996 And even if this is fixable, it won't help, as we'll have to drop 10.5 support in order to support XCode 4: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5011 If you build

Re: Weird failure of ghc-7.0.2 on OS X 10.5 using the bindist tarball

2011-03-12 Thread Thomas Schilling
OK, thanks. On 12 March 2011 14:25, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: It turns out that even an i386 build made on 10.6 won't work on 10.5:    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4996 And even if this is fixable, it won't help, as we'll have to drop 10.5 support in order to support

Weird failure of ghc-7.0.2 on OS X 10.5 using the bindist tarball

2011-03-11 Thread Thomas Schilling
I installed ghc (x86) from the bindist tarball like so: $ wget http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.2/ghc-7.0.2-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 $ tar -xjf ghc-7.0.2-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 $ cd ghc-7.0.2-i386-apple-darwin $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local $ make install $ ghc --version The Glorious

Re: Weird failure of ghc-7.0.2 on OS X 10.5 using the bindist tarball

2011-03-11 Thread Thomas Schilling
No, I have xcode installed (which is mainly needed for gcc, ar, ld, etc.). I have lots of other GHC versions installed as well, so I don't think that's the issue. I think Duncan has been working on dtrace support, so maybe he has an idea. (CC'd). On 11 March 2011 18:51, Don Stewart