GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (Intel) - Configure fails

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Mon Dec 10 21:10:25 EST 2007


Carsten Keßler:
> Basically, I just wanted to get this thing running without too much  
> hassle... Does anyone have an idea why the GHC distribution  
> available via MacPorts does not work at the moment?

Install "gmp" from MacPorts.  That will make the configure error go  
away.  (The installed compiler will not use the MacPorts gmp; it is  
just needed during the installation.)

I have no idea who maintains ghc in MacPorts, if anybody.

Manuel

>
>
>
> Philip Weaver schrieb:
>> "configure: error: cannot determine current directory"
>> I had this error message, too.  I looked in the configure script,  
>> and couldn't figure out what craziness it was doing to get the  
>> current directory.  I changed it to just do 'pwd', but I didn't get  
>> much farther.  I gave up and built from source :)
>> On Dec 10, 2007 11:23 AM, Carsten Keßler <carsten.kessler at uni-muenster.de 
>>  <mailto:carsten.kessler at uni-muenster.de>> wrote:
>>    I have re-installed GMP (again via MacPorts) - still the same  
>> error
>>    message. Maybe MacPorts puts in the wrong place on my system?
>>    Joel Reymont schrieb:
>>     > You may want to install GMP.framework back then.
>>     >
>>     > The error is saying that pwd is trying to load the framework  
>> and
>>    is not
>>     > finding it.
>>     >
>>     > On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Carsten Keßler wrote:
>>     >
>>     >> No, I'm using the binaries from
>>     >>
>>    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.8.1/chakravarty/ghc-6.8.1-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >> I have already removed GMP. I have uninstalled it via  
>> Macports, or
>>     >> might there be another version of it somewhere in my system?
>>     >
>>     > --
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