xcode 5 psa info on haskell platform page

[Carter Schonwald]

huh, so GHC head can't detect if the gcc I give it is really GCC or clang?
that sounds like a bug waiting to happen... I"ll have to look once i have
some time


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com>wrote:

> This seems to be in conflict with what others are reporting. Do you
> believe that the GHC 7.6.3 runtime, as shipped last spring, will fail to
> start up on 10.9? I have a hard time believing that - Apple almost never
> makes such breaking changes.
>
> I don't see anything in the changes in darinmorrison/ghc<https://github.com/darinmorrison/ghc> that
> detect at run time the compiler used. The flag choices seem to be made on
> items detected at config time.
>
> Making the wrapper robust for both Xcode 4 and Xcode 5 doesn't strike me
> as hard at all - since presumably there is an easy way to detect which
> version of Xcode (or for that matter, the version gcc reports when it is
> really clang.)
>
> - Mark
> ​
>
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