On Oct 13, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Adam Megacz wrote:
I'm grateful to whoever prepared the binary bundle for ghc-6.6 on MacOS/Intel, but the instructions for installing it are missing/wrong.
In particular, "make install" doesn't do much, and the only binary in the bundle called "ghc" appears to need additional configuration options (-B), so it seems to need some sort of installation procedure. The "INSTALL" file is not useful.
"make install" won't do much by itself because the target directories (/usr/local/*) are writable only by root; you need to use "sudo". The following worked fine for me: ./configure make sudo make install I also edited the post-install-script to leave the system libreadline library (really libedit) alone, and only install GNU readline in /usr/ local/*. GHC still works fine with that configuration, and the original Mac OS X libreadline is left around. That way you can still build software that runs on a stock Mac OS X installation (instead of unintentionally introducing a dependency on GNU readline). You can do the same thing by commenting out the three lines in post- install-script that touch /usr/lib/libreadline and /usr/include/ readline/*. As far as I can tell they're not needed. However, if you're not concerned about this issue (e.g. you always require GNU readline for any software you build) you can leave the post-install- script as is, and GHC will work fine. Deborah