Hello, Not much help, I'm afraid, but for what it's worth: I have built GHC-6.6 and some HEAD-ish version successfully on a PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther?) and also after upgrading to 10.4 Tiger. I have never tried with 10.2. To assist in your difficult decisions, here are some details about the machinery: Hardware Overview: Machine Name: PowerBook G4 Machine Model: PowerBook3,2 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (11.3) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 400 MHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB Memory: 384 MB Bus Speed: 100 MHz ... Macintosh HD: Capacity: 9.36 GB Available: 1.6 GB ... As you can probably see, this is also quite an old machine, but 10.4 runs comfortably here. Not much disc space left, though: I had to be rather selective when installing. And thanks for the priceless account of your arduous journey. Best regards Thorkil On Friday 29 December 2006 09:37, Kirsten Chevalier wrote:
Hi all, I'm trying to build the HEAD on a somewhat old PowerBook G4 running Mac OS 10.2.1. It would seem that I don't have a new enough version of gcc: % gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.1 20020420 (prerelease) and I can't seem to build a newer version of gcc (3.3) due to missing system include files which I assume (though that assumption may be wrong) are due to running 10.2 instead of 10.4. (For the full tale of woe, see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/KirstenSandbox). Am I right in thinking that building GHC on Mac OS 10.2.1 is more or less impossible, or has anyone managed to do it? I'm pretty close to just giving up and buying a PC (various things make it difficult for me to upgrade to Tiger).
Thanks, Kirsten
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