GHC Hackathon

[Mathew Mills]

While I have not seen that specific error, I did have many problems  
building GHC on my PPC Mac OS X 10.4 machine.  They were all fixed by  
upgrading to a more recent version of the XCode and developer tools  
( I am currently on 2.3, I have not tried the more recent 2.4 ).

Hope that helps.  If not, e-mail me directly and we can might be able  
to work through the issues.

Now, if someone has some hints about how to compile GHC on a  
PowerBook G4 in less than 36 hours, I am all ears :)

On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> can anyone help with MacOSX?
>
> S
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Gibbons [mailto:Jeremy.Gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: 08 September 2006 14:00
> To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Simon Marlow
> Cc: Jeremy Gibbons
> Subject: GHC Hackathon
>
> Hi, guys. I'm looking forward to the GHC Hackathon next week. In
> preparation, I was hoping to make sure that I can build GHC (on my  
> Mac,
> OS
> X 10.4). I've got part-way through the build (of GHC 6.4.2), but it
> stops
> with apparently syntax errors. I'm guessing that this is enough for  
> the
> Hackathon, and I'll be able to get expert help there; but if you think
> there's something else I need to do to prepare, do say.
>
> Jeremy
>
> PS In case you're interested now: while calling ghc-inplace on
> ghc/rts/Apply.cmm, I get errors
>
>   Apply.cmm:28: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after
> `section'
>   Apply.cmm:52: syntax error, found `1'
>   Apply.cmm:52: illegal method selector, found `*'
>
> and then many more, perhaps consequential.
>
>
> Jeremy.Gibbons at comlab.ox.ac.uk
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