[MacPorts] #22146: Error Installing ghc on Leopard snow (was: Error Installing haddock on Leopard snow)

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#22146: Error Installing ghc on Leopard snow
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 Reporter:  biobrain@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.8.1                                
 Keywords:                      |        Port:  ghc                                  
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Changes (by jmr@…):

  * keywords:  Haddock, Leopard Snow =>
  * port:  haddock => ghc


Old description:

> sudo port install haddock
> --->  Computing dependencies for haddock
> --->  Fetching gmp
> --->  Attempting to fetch gmp-4.3.1.tar.bz2 from
> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/gnu/ftp/gnu/gmp
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gmp
> --->  Extracting gmp
> --->  Applying patches to gmp
> --->  Configuring gmp
> --->  Building gmp
> --->  Staging gmp into destroot
> --->  Installing gmp @4.3.1_1
> --->  Activating gmp @4.3.1_1
> --->  Cleaning gmp
> --->  Fetching ghc
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: ghc is not yet supported on
> Mac OS X 10.6.x (SnowLeopard)
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ghc hs-ghc-paths
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

New description:

 {{{
 sudo port install haddock
 --->  Computing dependencies for haddock
 --->  Fetching gmp
 --->  Attempting to fetch gmp-4.3.1.tar.bz2 from
 http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/gnu/ftp/gnu/gmp
 --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gmp
 --->  Extracting gmp
 --->  Applying patches to gmp
 --->  Configuring gmp
 --->  Building gmp
 --->  Staging gmp into destroot
 --->  Installing gmp @4.3.1_1
 --->  Activating gmp @4.3.1_1
 --->  Cleaning gmp
 --->  Fetching ghc
 Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: ghc is not yet supported on Mac
 OS X 10.6.x (SnowLeopard)
 Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ghc hs-ghc-paths
 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
 }}}

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Comment:

 The fact that an informative message is simply printed before the port
 even tries to build indicates that the maintainer already knows it doesn't
 work...

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22146#comment:1>
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