RE: Cabal on OS X; ghc segfault?

On 11 August 2005 04:05, Andre Pang wrote:

> On 23/07/2005, at 12:12 AM, Gregory Wright wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to get caballized package deployment working on Mac OS X.
>> 
>> However, trying to build a package using runhaskell results in:
>> 
>> 
>> crossroads-able> runhaskell Setup.hs configure
>> Warning: No license-file field.
>> Configuring harp-0.2...
>> configure: searching for ghc in path.
>> configure: found ghc at /opt/local/bin/ghc
>> runhaskell: waitForProcess: interrupted (Interrupted system call)
> 
> Hi Gregory, you may be happy (I think :) to know I'm having this
> problem too on Mac OS X, so it's not just you.  So far, I've found
> that compiling Setup.hs ("ghc --make -o setup Setup.hs") and then
> running the resulting ./setup executable has never caused a problem,
> whereas I get the same waitForProcess error message that you do when
> I use runhaskell.
> 
> It would be worthwhile seeing whether using GHCi to invoke Setup.hs
> causes a similar problem.

Hi Andre,

Greg reported that the problem was fixed in 6.4.1 GHC snapshots.  Can
you try that?

Cheers,
        Simon