Problem compiling GHC

[Andre-John Mas]

Hi,

I wanted to install darcs, and ran into problems with GHS. I have the  
developer tools installed and I have managed to create binaries before:

$ sudo port install darcs
Password:
--->  Fetching pkgconfig
--->  Attempting to fetch pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz from http:// 
mirror.opensysadmin.com/pkg-config/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for pkgconfig
--->  Extracting pkgconfig
--->  Configuring pkgconfig
--->  Building pkgconfig with target all
--->  Staging pkgconfig into destroot
--->  Installing pkgconfig 0.21_0
--->  Activating pkgconfig 0.21_0
--->  Cleaning pkgconfig
--->  Fetching curl
--->  Attempting to fetch curl-7.16.2.tar.bz2 from http:// 
curl.haxx.se/download/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for curl
--->  Extracting curl
--->  Configuring curl
--->  Building curl with target all
--->  Staging curl into destroot
--->  Installing curl 7.16.2_0+darwin_8
--->  Activating curl 7.16.2_0+darwin_8
--->  Cleaning curl
--->  Fetching gmp
--->  Attempting to fetch gmp-4.2.1.tar.bz2 from http://ftp.gnu.org/ 
gnu/gmp
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gmp
--->  Extracting gmp
--->  Configuring gmp
--->  Building gmp with target all
--->  Staging gmp into destroot
--->  Running ranlib on static libraries
--->  Installing gmp 4.2.1_4+test
--->  Activating gmp 4.2.1_4+test
--->  Cleaning gmp
--->  Fetching perl5.8
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/ 
src/5.0/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8
--->  Extracting perl5.8
--->  Applying patches to perl5.8
--->  Configuring perl5.8
--->  Building perl5.8 with target all
--->  Staging perl5.8 into destroot
--->  Installing perl5.8 5.8.8_0+darwin_8
--->  Activating perl5.8 5.8.8_0+darwin_8
--->  Cleaning perl5.8
--->  Fetching ncursesw
--->  Attempting to fetch ncurses-5.6.tar.gz from http://ftp.gnu.org/ 
gnu/ncurses
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for ncursesw
--->  Extracting ncursesw
--->  Applying patches to ncursesw
--->  Configuring ncursesw
--->  Building ncursesw with target all
--->  Staging ncursesw into destroot
--->  Installing ncursesw 5.6_0+darwin_8
--->  Activating ncursesw 5.6_0+darwin_8
--->  Cleaning ncursesw
--->  Fetching ncurses
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for ncurses
--->  Extracting ncurses
--->  Applying patches to ncurses
--->  Configuring ncurses
--->  Building ncurses with target all
--->  Staging ncurses into destroot
--->  Installing ncurses 5.6_0+darwin_8
--->  Activating ncurses 5.6_0+darwin_8
--->  Cleaning ncurses
--->  Fetching readline
--->  Attempting to fetch readline52-001 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ 
readline/readline-5.2-patches/
--->  Attempting to fetch readline-5.2.tar.gz from http://ftp.gnu.org/ 
gnu/readline
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for readline
--->  Extracting readline
--->  Applying patches to readline
--->  Configuring readline
--->  Building readline with target all
--->  Staging readline into destroot
--->  Installing readline 5.2.001_0
--->  Activating readline 5.2.001_0
--->  Cleaning readline
--->  Fetching ghc
--->  Attempting to fetch ghc-6.6.1-src.tar.bz2 from http:// 
www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6.1/
--->  Attempting to fetch ghc-6.6.1-src-extralibs.tar.bz2 from http:// 
www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6.1/
--->  Attempting to fetch ghc-6.6-i386-apple-darwin-bootstrap.tar.bz2  
from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for ghc
--->  Extracting ghc
--->  Applying patches to ghc
--->  Configuring ghc
Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: configure failure: shell  
command " cd "/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp 
orts_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.6.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local -- 
prefix=/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp 
orts_lang_ghc/work/destroot//opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/var/db/ 
dports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp 
orts_lang_ghc/work/destroot//opt/local/share/man/ --with-readline- 
includes=/opt/local/include --with-readline-libraries=/opt/local/lib  
--disable-openal --disable-alut --with-ghc='/opt/local/var/db/dports/ 
build/ 
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp 
orts_lang_ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc' " returned error 77
Command output: checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin8.9.1
checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin8.9.1
checking target system type... i686-apple-darwin8.9.1
Canonicalised to: i386-apple-darwin
checking for path to top of build tree... /opt/local/var/db/dports/ 
build/ 
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp 
orts_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.6.1
checking version of ghc... 6.6
checking for ghc-pkg matching /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp 
orts_lang_ghc/work/ghc-bootstrap/bin/ghc... no
checking for ghc-pkg... no
checking whether ghc has readline package... no
checking for nhc... no
checking for nhc98... no
checking for hbc... no
checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes
checking for perl... /opt/local/bin/perl
checking if your perl works in shell scripts... yes
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:  
C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ghc
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.