Changeset 17239 for INSTALL

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08/10/07 20:53:05 (16 months ago)
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kjwcode
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Add note about build failures with ActivePerl? on OS X.

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    r17069 r17239  
    1414which is usually bundled with GHC itself. (The 6.6 source code contains it.) 
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    1716http://jnthn.net/perl6/ has binary builds for Win32.  For Mac OS X (PowerPC), 
    1817http://www.unobe.com/packages/ has binary builds too. If you'd like to build 
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    2524i386 http://feather.perl6.nl/~diakopter/ 
    2625amd64 http://airen.bcm.umontreal.ca/ghc-pugs-etch/ 
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     27Do not use ActivePerl on OS X to run Makefile.PL.  ActivePerl is built as a 
     28Universal binary, and the pugs build system will try to use build 
     29information from ActivePerl and cause the build to fail.  The Perl from 
     30MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/) seems to work well. 
    2731 
    2832For dynamic loading/inlining of Haskell modules, you should install the