Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-17 Thread George Colpitts
Type the following at the command line: xcode-select --install and then try ghci again. I'm not sure what you mean by "the software" in the phrase "Should I delete and reinstall the software you told me to install?" but in any case don't delete anything. Please try to be as specific as

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread George Colpitts
Somehow I missed that it is now working for you. Great! Definitely no need to report a bug. Haskell is a great language. Enjoy! Cheers George On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 3:07 PM William McEnaney wrote: > Hi, George, > > Now that the compiler runs, maybe I don't need to report a bug. > ... >

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread George Colpitts
Hi Bill, It's easy to forget to do replay all in gmail but it's important to do so in these emails. In your original email you wrote: After installing the compiler, my laptop said its processor was wrong for the binary distribution I chose. If there is a dmg file for *MacOS 12.5.1,* please

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread George Colpitts
Hi William I think it's best if you submit a bug as described here Whether in email or in the bug report it is critical that you describe how the reader can reproduce the bug, i.e. starting from the beginning, describe what you did and

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread George Colpitts
Bill For your latest problem libHSterminfo-0.4.1.5-ghc9.4.4.dylib” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. Did you try what I wrote in my last email: rm -fr /usr/local/bin/ghc* rm -fr /usr/local/lib/ghc* ./configure sudo xattr -rc . sudo make install George

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Hi Bill > > I'm cc'ing GHC dev and GHC users as someone else may have a better answer, > catch a mistake I made etc. Please don't delete them. > > I believe you have encountered > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21506#note_447206 > > I believe the way to fix

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread George Colpitts
cc'ing others On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 1:20 PM George Colpitts wrote: > Thanks Brandon. There were some earlier emails that somehow got dropped > from this. > > I believe we have already solved the wrong architecture issue; this is the > next issue. > > Here is the earlier email: > > I just

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread Brandon Allbery
That seems unlikely; it would report a permission error in that case, not that it had the wrong architecture. On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:04 PM George Colpitts wrote: > > Hi Bill > > I'm cc'ing GHC dev and GHC users as someone else may have a better answer, > catch a mistake I made etc. Please

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread George Colpitts
Hi Bill I'm cc'ing GHC dev and GHC users as someone else may have a better answer, catch a mistake I made etc. Please don't delete them. I believe you have encountered https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21506#note_447206 I believe the way to fix this is to do the following: rm -fr

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread George Colpitts
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Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread George Colpitts
Hi Bill Yes,GHC will run on your new MacBook Air. The cpu in that is Apple Silicon , the aarch64-apple-darwin platform. Older Macs run on Intel chips, the x86_64-apple-darwin platform. I'm not sure how you installed the compiler. I believe the standard way is described on

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Redirecting this query to ghc-devs. Can anyone help William? Thanks! Will GHC run on my new MacBook Air? After installing the compiler, my > laptop said its processor was wrong for the binary distribution I chose. If > there is a dmg file for MacOS 12.5.1, please please link your reply to it. >