[Replies please cc me or the hugs-bugs list, as I currently is not on the Haskell list.] At 11:05 +0100 1-01-03, Atze Dijkstra wrote:
On http://www.cs.uu.nl/~atze/Programming/index.html a version of ghc (4.08.1) and happy (still 1.8) for MacOS X/Darwin can be downloaded. However, a few remarks do apply: this version of ghc is not a completely ported version but built with generic settings and meant as a bootstrapping compiler. It also is distributed as binaries for a specific location (/usr/local/{ghc,happy}) in the UNIX directory structure. The main reasons for distributing it in this unfinished form are: - The MacOS X cc (c compiler) has some (blocking) bugs (for example, problems with asm statements) which hinder progress.
Isn't this related to the "munging" that GHC makes use of on other platforms?
- I consider 'unfinished' availability now of greater importance than 'perfect' availability later, so people can play with it. - The compiler seems to run ok, that is, after minimal testing (compiling ghc libraries and a local AG + parsercombinator system).
Otherwise it sounds great: As no-one before has been able to port anything of GHC to MacOS (as far as I know), any kind of progress is important. (I do not have access to MacOS X right now, so unfortunatley I cannot try out your port.) Hans Aberg