Yitzchak Gale:
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
Try this http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/GHC-6.9.20080213-i386.dmg
I got it, but there were some download problems. I hope the file is intact. It has exactly 44740924 bytes. Perhaps you could send me an md5sum to be certain.
The file length is correct. wireless-139 chak 2 (/Users/chak): md5 Public/Web/haskell/ GHC-6.9.20080213-i386.dmg MD5 (Public/Web/haskell/GHC-6.9.20080213-i386.dmg) = cc76dea615234aa83d85ef5c30021828
and whether you can run /usr/bin/ghci (not so sure about that).
It didn't.
$ /usr/bin/ghci Bus error
In the readme, you say that I require Xcode 3.0. Tiger came with Xcode 2.4.1, and I have not updated it. (I tried once, but the download was so huge that I decided to forget it unless there was some real need.) Could that be part of the problem?
If ghc worked in the past on your machine, then your Xcode version should be fine. (It's really only important that we have a version of gcc that plays nicely with ghc.) But you are right, I need to update that readme for Tiger (the recommendation for 3.0 really only applies to Leopard.) I had a closer look at cross compilation for 10.4 and I think I know why we get the bus error and how to avoid it. To avoid you having to download another GHC build, which may have problems again, I have compiled two versions of hello world and put them in a tar ball at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/HelloWorld.tar.bz2 It contains HelloWorld-Leopard and HelloWorld-Tiger. Please try to run them both. I believe HelloWorld-Leopard will also give you a bus error, but I hope HelloWorld-Tiger will work. (Interestingly HelloWorld-Tiger is about 8x bigger than HelloWorld- Leopard. I don't think this has anything to do with GHC, but is due to Apple's cross-compilation SDK.) Manuel