Hi Carter,

Thank you for your information. That is really helpful. I wrote a blog
article on "Building GHC head on Mavericks with Xcode 5":

        http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kazu-yamamoto/20131028/1382921924

--Kazu

> Darin Morrison has a brew tap
> https://github.com/darinmorrison/homebrew-haskell that works,
>  alternatively, have a build of a more recent GCC locally (i have gcc 4.8
> installed )
>
> alternatively, manuel, Luke i, and darin hacked out a way to wrap clang so
> 7.6 could use clang as if it were gcc. the current version lives over
> https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/blob/master/clang-xcode5-wrapper.hs,
> as linked from the ghcIOS directions here
> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/CrossCompiling/iOS
>
> the simplest way might be the last in terms of extra deps to install.
>
> alternatively you can do something like brew install gcc48 or brew install
> apple-gcc42  (i've got 4.8 installed)
>
> cheers