building under MacOSX 10.5 with macports

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Peter Gavin:
> The problem seems to be that ranlib isn't being run from the cabal- 
> generated makefiles after each libHS.a under libraries/ is built. At  
> some point the build fails when trying to link to libHShaskell98.a,  
> complaining about a missing index, so I ran ranlib on the library,  
> and the build continued. I ended up patching cabal to add a ranlib  
> call from the makefiles, and the build proceeded from start to  
> finish, without failing.
>
> If anyone is interested in seeing the patch, I've sent it to the  
> Cabal-devel list:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2008-February/002033.html
>
> Has anyone else using Mac OSX 10.5 had this problem?

Yes, I have seen the same problem.  Interestingly, it only happens  
during the initial build in a fresh tree.

BTW, an alternative to ranlib is to pass the -s option to ar.  It will  
then create a table of contents straight away (which is the default  
behaviour of GNU ar).

Manuel