Fwd: Mac OS X installer is live: please confirm all is working

[Sebastian Fischer]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Sebastian Fischer <sebf at informatik.uni-kiel.de>
> Date: June 5, 2009 12:34:57 AM GMT+02:00
> To: haskell-platform <Haskell-platform at community.haskell.org>
> Subject: Re: Mac OS X installer is live: please confirm all is working
>
>> Could Mac users sign-on that this is working for them, and then I'll
>> let the world know.
>
> Installing GHC and the Platform worked without an error for me (on  
> OS X 10.5.7). Easy! I noticed that the ghci history contains the  
> item "_HiStOrY_V2_" and don't know where exactly that comes from..
>
> A different issue: I could not 'cabal install cabal-install' but got  
> the following error:
>
> ...
> [33 of 33] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs, dist/build/cabal/ 
> cabal-tmp/Main.o )
> Linking dist/build/cabal/cabal ...
> Undefined symbols:
>  "_networkzm2zi2zi1zi1_NetworkziSocket_a111_info", referenced from:
>      _sop4_info in libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _sorZ_info in libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _souN_info in libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _soyj_info in libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>  "_networkzm2zi2zi1zi1_NetworkziSocket_a226_closure", referenced from:
>      _HTTPzm4000zi0zi6_NetworkziTCP_a21_srt in  
> libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _HTTPzm4000zi0zi6_NetworkziTCP_a22_srt in  
> libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _HTTPzm4000zi0zi6_NetworkziTCP_a23_srt in  
> libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _HTTPzm4000zi0zi6_NetworkziTCP_a26_srt in  
> libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>  "_networkzm2zi2zi1zi1_NetworkziSocket_a226_info", referenced from:
>      _sorl_info in libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _soub_info in libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _sox2_info in libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
>      _soAv_info in libHSHTTP-4000.0.6.a(TCP.o)
> ld: symbol(s) not found
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> cabal-install-0.6.2 failed during the building phase. The exception  
> was:
> exit: ExitFailure 1
>
> Fortunately, there is already cabal-install version 0.6.2 installed:
>
> $ cabal --version
> cabal-install version 0.6.2
> using version 1.6.0.2 of the Cabal library
>
> Updating all the necessary Haskell stuff was never that easy. Nice  
> job!
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
>
> -- 
> Underestimating the novelty of the future is a time-honored tradition.
> (D.G.)
>
>
>

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Underestimating the novelty of the future is a time-honored tradition.
(D.G.)