Hi, Denis wanted to install pandoc form MacPorts and got problems (below), because he has installed my ghc-6.8.3-powerpc binary. If my binary works you could download http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pandoc/1.0.0.1/pandoc-1.0.0.1.ta... unpack and do the runhaskell Setup configure runhaskell Setup build sudo runhaskell Setup install business (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal/How_to_install_a_Cabal_package) also for all missing dependencies, i.e. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/zip-archive/0.1.1/zip-archive-0.... I don't know if or how this interferes with MacPorts. Cheers Christian port deps pandoc => pandoc has build dependencies on: ghc haddock pandoc has library dependencies on: gmp denis wrote:

Thanks Greg,

fair enough. Could you or Christian suggest to the owners of http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683.html something along the lines of

MacPorts users note: MacPorts will use /only/ a ghc built with "port install ghc", no other.

so the next guy doesn't run into the same wall ?

Hi,

MacPorts uses a known good binary ghc bootstrap compiler to build ghc from source. We won't support building using another bootstrap compiler, which seems to be what you want to do. (ghc is hard enough to build with a known good compiler, and we don't have the resources to debug unsupported configurations.)

Best Wishes, Greg