Installing GHC and GHCi on a PowerPC Mac running MacOS 10.5.8
I am a complete newbie but fascinated by the Haskell language. I am trying to install GHC and GHCi on an older Mac and it seems like the recommended Haskell Platform is not supported on PowerPC running MacOS 10.5.8. Is this correct? I find that following the links on the site http://haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages.html#macosx just sends me in circles so I am appealing to you for some hints as to how to proceed. I already have XCode 3.1 installed and I have just updated my MacPorts installation but now I confess I am a bit stuck. Can you recommend a reasonable path to follow from here? Thanx ::paul
On May 30, 2010, at 23:46 , Paul Higham wrote:
just sends me in circles so I am appealing to you for some hints as to how to proceed. I already have XCode 3.1 installed and I have just updated my MacPorts installation but now I confess I am a bit stuck.
You need to use the MacPorts method of installation. "sudo port install haskell-platform" -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
Hi Paul. I think that the last PPC version of GHC supported was 6.4.1 (I've installed it on my old iBook G4 with MacOS X 10.5.8 Xcode 3.1) http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html but I'm not sure. Try to install this version. Let me know. Luca. On May 31, 2010, at 5:46 AM, Paul Higham wrote:
I am a complete newbie but fascinated by the Haskell language. I am trying to install GHC and GHCi on an older Mac and it seems like the recommended Haskell Platform is not supported on PowerPC running MacOS 10.5.8. Is this correct?
I find that following the links on the site
http://haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages.html#macosx
just sends me in circles so I am appealing to you for some hints as to how to proceed. I already have XCode 3.1 installed and I have just updated my MacPorts installation but now I confess I am a bit stuck.
Can you recommend a reasonable path to follow from here?
Thanx
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http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_4.html#macosxppc should work by unpacking, ./configure and "make install" Christian Paul Higham schrieb:
I am a complete newbie but fascinated by the Haskell language. I am trying to install GHC and GHCi on an older Mac and it seems like the recommended Haskell Platform is not supported on PowerPC running MacOS 10.5.8. Is this correct?
I find that following the links on the site
http://haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages.html#macosx
just sends me in circles so I am appealing to you for some hints as to how to proceed. I already have XCode 3.1 installed and I have just updated my MacPorts installation but now I confess I am a bit stuck.
Can you recommend a reasonable path to follow from here?
Thanx
::paul
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Paul Higham