Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-23 Thread Edsko de Vries
Just to add to Carter's message: if you happened to install Xcode 5 anyway, then realized your mistake and uninstalled it and installed Xcode 4 again, you will STILL have the command line tools that came with Xcode 5 and your Haskell toolchain will STILL be broken -- and so far I have been unable

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-20 Thread Adam Foltzer
Hi Carter, Thanks for this heads up! Many of us here are cutting edge Mac users, and would have been bitten by this. Darin and I plan to spend some time next month preparing an unofficial patched version of ghc 7.6 that should play nice with clang / xcode 5, though at such a time ghc 7.8 will

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-20 Thread Carter Schonwald
glad to help. an alternative for the discerning power user is to install a recent version of gcc locally (eg 4.8), and build 7.6.3 with that! (or just repoint your ghc settings file to a locally built version of real gcc.) yes, assuming we have the time (after all, it's all volunteer time), that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-17 Thread Obscaenvs
Wow, thank you for the heads up! f Le 2013-09-17 05:16, Carter Schonwald a écrit : Hey everyone, if you are actively using ghc 7.6 on your mac, for now please do not install xcode 5. It will break your ghc install, because 7.6 doesn't know how to correctly use Clang for the CPP work.

[Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-16 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hey everyone, if you are actively using ghc 7.6 on your mac, for now please do not install xcode 5. It will break your ghc install, because 7.6 doesn't know how to correctly use Clang for the CPP work. (ghc head / and thus 7.8 will work fine with xcode 5, thanks to some outstanding work by