Hi, Manuel M T Chakravarty:
I can't help you with the PPC, but on the MacBook try building with
make EXTRA_AR_ARGS=-s
It's a known bug with Cabal.
Thanks, Manuel, it builds now. Afterwards, I ran 'make' in 'testsuite/tests/ghc-regress' and got this: OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Mon Feb 18 17:55:20 CET 2008 2084 total tests, which gave rise to 10640 test cases, of which 0 caused framework failures 2160 were skipped 7487 expected passes 372 expected failures 0 unexpected passes 621 unexpected failures That seems like a large number of unexpected failures; however, I haven't seen a summary from a build of Mac OS X on x86, so I don't know what to expect. At a glance, many of the failures refer to ghci (at least that's what I assume the "(ghci)" next to the name means). Here is a sample: =====> user001(ghci) cd ../../../libraries/unix/tests && '/Users/leather/Projects/ghc-stable/ghc/compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace' -no-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -Di386_apple_darwin user001.hs --interactive -v0 -ignore-dot-ghci -package unix <user001.genscript 1>user001.interp.stdout 2>user001.interp.stderr Wrong exit code (expected 0 , actual 1 ) Stdout: Stderr: *** unexpected failure for user001(ghci) Is this reasonable? In other words, is something broken? Another thing I need to tweak, perhaps? Thanks, Sean