Problem compiling GHC

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 25, 2007, at 10:47, Andre-John Mas wrote:

> 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

[snip]

> --->  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_ 
> dports_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_ 
> dports_lang_ghc/work/destroot//opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/var/db/ 
> dports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_ 
> dports_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_ 
> dports_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_ 
> dports_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_ 
> dports_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.

Interesting.

You're on an Intel Mac with Mac OS X 10.4.9, it looks like. And you  
have Xcode 2.4.1 installed? What version of gcc is selected? It  
should be 4.0.1. On my system:

$ gcc_select
Current default compiler:
gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)

Do you have the latest MacPorts? "sudo port selfupdate" to make sure.

What does the config.log say? It'll be in the work directory. "cd  
`port dir ghc`/work/ghc-*"


The ghc portfile does look very complicated. Maybe the maintainer has  
more to say on the matter. I'm Cc'ing him.