xcode 5 psa info on haskell platform page

[George Colpitts]

Fwiw, hp platform starts up on  mavericks, i.e. 10.9, i understand that
there are a lot of issues in 10.9/ Xcode 5 but just wanted to clarify that
my minimal testing shows that it is not totally dead in the water

On Sunday, October 27, 2013, Mark Lentczner 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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