Sean Leather:
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:
I haven't run the full test suite on the 6.8 branch. Try make Validating=YES fast stage=2 CLEANUP=1 That should go through (sometimes when test outputs changes due to changes on the HEAD), it takes a while until the tests are adapted to expect different outputs for 6.8. Manuel