Re: ghc on macos

On Oct 10, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> Can anyone help Bob with getting GHC to work on his Mac?  Wolfgang?
>
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Harper [mailto:bobharper@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 October 2005 00:48
> To: Simon Peyton-Jones
> Subject: ghc on macos
>
> hi simon,
>
> today i downloaded ghc using darwinports on my macos notebook.
> installing ghc never terminates, unfortunately.  it gets to "building
> ghc with target all" and never finishes (this after a "sudo port
> install ghc" command to the shell).

Try "sudo port -dv install ghc"; the "-dv" flags will let you watch what
is going on. Note that on a reasonably fast system, e.g., a powerbook G4
1.5 GHz with 1 GB RAM, ghc takes five or six hours to build.  On my  
old 800 MHz
powerbook, it took 10 hours.

The "port info ghc" command will give you the email address of the port
maintainer (in this case, me) so you can communicate to him directly.

Does it really never terminate or just takes much longer than you  
expected?

Best Wishes,
Greg


> bob
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