Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ease of Haskell development on OS X?

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, David Leimbach wrote:

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Don Stewart wrote:

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martijn:

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Don Stewart wrote:

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Yes, anything that is relevant to the development experience on this platform. Remember: it is more than just getting ghc. How do they get hold of new libraries and apps? Is cabal-install available?

Since GHC is written in Haskell, do you need to have another Haskell compiler installed before GHC 6.10.1 can be installed through MacPorts?

It bootstraps itself.

??? GHC does or MacPorts does. My experience was that you needed GHC to build GHC :-)

Dave

To be clear the download page says you must have an older version of GHC to build it. "The source distribution needs an installed GHC (version 6.4.2 at least). If your platform isn't currently supported with a binary distribution, then you'll need to consult the section on Porting GHChttp://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting in the Building Guide."

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