On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 05:55, Tom Murphy wrote:
This may sound ignorant because, well, it is ignorant: I know very
little about the underlying mechanics here.

Installing the Haskell Platform currently requires XCode developer tools.

To get XCode on my 10.6 machine, I...

... will check out the related discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/89745

Regards,
Sean