On Friday, February 14, 2014, Carter Schonwald &lt;<a href="mailto:carter.schonwald@gmail.com">carter.schonwald@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div>someone needs to help take over language C maintainer ship, because its going to be broken on 7.8 unless someone pushes a sdist&#39;d with a new happy/ alex to hackage (see <a href="https://github.com/haskell/c2hs/issues/64" target="_blank">https://github.com/haskell/c2hs/issues/64</a> for an example issue)</div>


<div><br></div><div>I know Anthony and Jason have at points patched language-c for their respective needs, so i&#39;m cc&#39;ing em :) </div><div><br></div><div>-Carter</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To clarify the situation for anyone who wants to take up the language-c mantle, I have a fork at  <a href="https://github.com/acowley/language-c">https://github.com/acowley/language-c</a> that lets one use c2hs on OS X Mavericks, in particular for OpenCL and OpenGL. You will probably find evidence of me reporting and talking about this issue in various places; I never got any response from anyone, but sensed a healthy amount of Won&#39;t Fix in the air.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A more popular fix has been to #define hacks for individual package build systems, but this is crazy as it means the hack has to be replicated everywhere. If c2hs is absolutely necessary, then its use of language-c should be reconsidered. All I did was hack the language-c parser to be more liberal in the attributes it accepts. I have no reason to believe that my changes are correct, but it is apparent that nobody is using these parse results: we just need the parser to not error out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>TL;DR: Long term, language-c should have a stripped down mode of operation that better fits c2hs&#39;s needs. Short term, my language-c fork seems to work on OS X, but I haven&#39;t tested much elsewhere.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anthony</div><div><br></div>