Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-23 Thread Edsko de Vries
Just to add to Carter's message: if you happened to install Xcode 5 anyway, then realized your mistake and uninstalled it and installed Xcode 4 again, you will STILL have the command line tools that came with Xcode 5 and your Haskell toolchain will STILL be broken -- and so far I have been unable t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-20 Thread Carter Schonwald
glad to help. an alternative for the discerning power user is to install a recent version of gcc locally (eg 4.8), and build 7.6.3 with that! (or just repoint your ghc settings file to a locally built version of real gcc.) yes, assuming we have the time (after all, it's all volunteer time), that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-20 Thread Adam Foltzer
Hi Carter, Thanks for this heads up! Many of us here are cutting edge Mac users, and would have been bitten by this. Darin and I plan to spend some time next month preparing an unofficial > patched version of ghc 7.6 that should play nice with clang / xcode 5, > though at such a time ghc 7.8 will

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PSA: do not install xcode 5 if you are using ghc 7.6

2013-09-17 Thread Obscaenvs
Wow, thank you for the heads up! f Le 2013-09-17 05:16, Carter Schonwald a écrit : > Hey everyone, > > if you are actively using ghc 7.6 on your mac, > for now please do not install xcode 5. > > It will break your ghc install, because 7.6 doesn't know how to > correctly use Clang for the CPP