Re: GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I ultimately failed to get 6.8.1 working on OS X 10.5 (with XCode 3.0). The compile finished, the only odd thing was the often multiply repeated message "unknown scattered relocation type 4" during compilation. I have the configure and build log, but I doubt it holds anything useful. So now I have a compiler/stage1/ghc-6.8.1 and compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace whcih work, and a compiler/stage2/ghc-6.8.1 and compiler/stage2/ghc-inplace that Segmentation Fault when I try to run either. "make install" works, but installs a Segmentation Faulting compiler. I give up until someone else can report a recipe for success or posts a binary for powerpc G4 or has a really convincing hypothesis. The good news is that the ghc-6.6.1 leftover from OS 10.4.x still works. -- Chris haskell@list.mightyreason.com wrote:

Brian P. O'Hanlon wrote:

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On Nov 6, 2007 1:29 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:

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A full binary distribution of GHC 6.8.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2 You do not perchance have one for powerpc, do you? I attempted to bootstrap from GHC 6.6.1, but I keep getting errors about "Illegal Instructions", both using the native gcc 4.0 and my own 4.2 compiler. The error is like this:

I am also failing to compile ghc-6.8.1 for a powerpc (G4 powerbook). I am giving a try to leave out the extra src tarball to see if that avoids it dying again while trying to compile parsec. Of course, it takes many hours to try to compile.