"Job Opening" - Mac OS X 10.2 Binary Packages

Diederik van Arkel diederik at cs.kun.nl
Sat Oct 25 01:07:26 EDT 2003


On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 05:06  PM, Wolfgang Thaller wrote:

> Dear GHC for Mac OS X Users,
>
> As you probably know, Mac OS X 10.3 a.k.a. Panther is being officially 
> released today. I'm going to upgrade my Powerbook right away.
>
> Panther adds some new functions in Darwin (for example, dlfcn.h and 
> proper wchar support). GHC will automatically make use of these new 
> features, but that means that versions of GHC built on Panther will 
> not work on previous versions of Mac OS X.
>
> Which brings me to the point of this mail: When GHC 6.2 is released, I 
> probably won't have access to a Mac running Mac OS 10.2 any more, 
> which means that my binaries for GHC 6.2 will _require_ Mac OS X 10.3.
>
> So would someone please step forward and accept the role of GHC 
> packager for Mac OS X 10.2?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wolfgang

Not necessary, the 10.3 dev tools includes the headers for 10.1 and 
10.2 so you can compile for all three OS revisions from your 10.3 box.

Regards,

Diederik van Arkel



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