[nhc-bugs] Build failure of nhc98-1.18 on Mac OS X 10.3.8 with gcc 3.3

[Malcolm Wallace]

Gregory Wright <gwright at comcast.net> writes:

> I've encountered a build failure of nhc98 1.18 on Mac OS X 10.3.8 using
> Apple's gcc 3.3. The build fails with a bus error, as can be seen in 
> the attached log. GHC is not installed; the build is using gcc.

Thanks for the bug report.  This bus error bug was the main reason
holding up the release of 1.18 for the last year or so, and it was
recently fixed thanks to Wolfgang Thaller.  One of the consequences of
the fix was a need to regenerate at least some of the .hc bootstrapping
files, and unfortunately, it turns out that this step was omitted on
the Solaris machine where I put together the src tarball.  :-(  Apologies.

I have re-packaged the tarball with the correct .hc files now,
and tested that it does indeed now build correctly on MacOS 10.3.8,
with gcc-3.3.

> 	CC=gcc ./configure --buildwith=gcc --mandir=/opt/local/share/man

By the way, it is no longer necessary to explicitly set CC=gcc on MacOS.

> Can anyone tell me if I've done something blindingly stupid?

Nope, my fault!

Regards,
    Malcolm