[darcs-users] Help - can't build darcs on Mac OSX at all
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Wed Feb 9 03:01:12 UTC 2005
I have a new server (Fedora Core 2) and figured maybe I should look at
migrating away from cvs for my software development work. I noticed the
Quixote folks are experimenting with darcs so I thought I'd give it a try.
I have had no end of problems trying to get a working setup. After a bit of
messing around with yum I was able to get darcs installed on the fc2 system.
That left my development machine (Mac OSX Jaguar). Man, what a nightmare
that's been. The latest ghc dmg only works on Panther, so I tried
darwinports (never used that before). That consumed a couple hours of my
time and left me with no working ghc. I finally gave up trying to install
ghc 6.2.2 through dports and tracked down a 6.0.1 dmg for Jaguar. Now I
have ghc. Alas, darcs won't build. After ./configure ; make I get
ghc -cpp -package unix -O -funbox-strict-fields -Wall -Werror -package util -I. -DHAVE_CURSES -DHAVE_CURL -c AntiMemo.lhs
/tmp/ghc5361.lpp:1: parse error on input `#'
Can I presume that darcs requires a more recent version of ghc? If so, I
guess I'll just go back to cvs for now.
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Skip Montanaro
skip at mojam.com
http://www.mojam.com/
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