HP comments from the State of Haskell survey

[Chris Patti]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>wrote:

> Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:
>
> > cpatti:
> >>
> >>     So what patch does the binary installer have, that the generic
> installer
> >>     doesn't?
> >>
> >>     Let me know.
> >>
> >>     -- Don
> >>
> >>
> >> I have no idea - the installer is a binary - are there sources for it
> around
> >> somewhere? If so I or someone else with a contributor bit should get the
> patch
> >> into the generic source tarball.
> >
> > Yes, the Mac installer sources are here:
> >
> >     http://github.com/gregorycollins/haskell-platform-osx-installer
> >
> >     http://github.com/gregorycollins/cabal2macpkg
>
> Keep in mind that this cruft is unlikely to help you with the MacPorts
> stuff because we use the GHC upstream installer and that code is
> tailored towards working with OSX installer .pkg files.
>
> G
> --
> Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
>


My goal is simply to get the 'generic tarball sources' to build, because
that's what Homebrew consumes and what is currently breaking on a linker
error.

-Chris


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