MacOS installation settings are for gcc rather than clang
ghcup installs ghc nicely under MacOS but, unlike brew install ghc
, the ghc --info
settings pick gcc
rather than clang
as the C compiler:
3c3
< ,("C compiler command","gcc")
---
> ,("C compiler command","clang")
8c8
< ,("Haskell CPP command","gcc")
---
> ,("Haskell CPP command","clang")
28c28
< ,("unlit command","/Users/xxx/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/bin/unlit")
---
> ,("unlit command","/usr/local/Cellar/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/bin/unlit")
56c56
< ,("Booter version","8.6.5")
---
> ,("Booter version","8.10.4")
76,77c76,77
< ,("LibDir","/Users/xxx/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4")
< ,("Global Package DB","/Users/xxx/.ghcup/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/package.conf.d")
---
> ,("LibDir","/usr/local/Cellar/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4")
> ,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/Cellar/ghc/8.10.4/lib/ghc-8.10.4/package.conf.d")
In many cases, this will not matter either way, as gcc may just be a wrapper around clang, but in some cases it will (because build scripts / includes set different flags for the different compilers). llvm-hs
builds OK with clang, but not gcc (not for any low-level reason, but because it thinks it is compiling C when compiling C++ in places, for example).
It is, of course, easy enough to set these by hand but it would seem more robust either to ask the user which compiler should be used or, ideally, to follow homebrew
and default to clang
.