[darcs-users] Help - can't build darcs on Mac OSX at all

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Thu Feb 10 14:01:42 UTC 2005


On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:01:12PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, I think so.  Is there any chance that someone will volunteer to make
a dmg of darcs available for the mac? I imagine that a version of darcs
compiled on panther will run fine on jaguar?
-- 
David Roundy
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