Re: GHC 8.0.1-rc4 source tarball availability

Definitely more complicated than I thought. :) It also seems as if Xcode has changed in that I used to be able to install command line tools from Xcode and did. However in Xcode 7.3 Preferences-> Components implies I already have it. I guess the best thing would be for configure to figure all this out and do the right thing. I'm guessing that is not easy and I don't believe it is critical for the release of 8.0. The second best thing to do would be to have the error message suggest two possible workaround/fixes with an explanation that one is for people with full Xcode, the other for people with only XCode command line tools. In any case I trust in your judgement and that of other ghc developers with more experience than me to do the right thing. I wish I could be more helpful. Cheers George On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:49 PM Ben Gamari wrote:

George Colpitts writes:

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The error message should be changed from

Workaround: You may want to pass '--with-nm=nm-classic' to 'configure'.

to

Workaround: You may want to pass '--with-nm=$(xcode-select -p)/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/nm-classic' to 'configure'.

Once I did that (as documented in https://ghc.haskell.org/ticket/11744) I was able to do a build

Hmm, although I just checked on our OS X test box (which has the command-line tools installed, not full XCode) and it seems that the /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Toolchains directory doesn't exist. Presumably this is a (rather unfortunate) difference between full XCode and the command-line package. Do you know whether there is some advice that we might be able to offer that will work in both cases?

If not I suspect we should just go with your suggestion; the full-XCode case is the far more likely of the two.

Cheers,

- Ben