Ticket #482 (closed bug: wontfix)

Opened 7 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

'Bug' when installing GHC 6.4.1

Reported by: nobody Owned by: wolfgang
Priority: normal Milestone: _|_
Component: Build System Version: 6.4.1
Keywords: Cc:
Operating System: MacOS X Architecture: powerpc
Type of failure: Difficulty: Unknown
Test Case: N/A Blocked By:
Blocking: Related Tickets:

Description (last modified by igloo) (diff)

I installed GHC-6.4.1.pkg.zip under MacOSX, and selected the startup volume for install. The idea is that he puts the ghc exec. and the rest in /usr/local. In my case, /usr/local/ is a symbolic link to another partition. It turns out that the installer then removes this link, makes a new subdir /usr/local/ and installs ghc in there. This means, all my other stuff has become inaccessible. My feeling is that this is a bug. I can imagine that you check whether /usr/local exists and whether it is a directory, and maybe the case that it is a symbolic link to a directory is not yet covered.

Change History

Changed 7 years ago by simonmar

  • owner changed from nobody to wolfgang
  • status changed from assigned to new
  • description modified (diff)

Changed 7 years ago by wolfgang

  • status changed from new to assigned

This is a problem with Apple's installer that people have been complaining about on the web for a long time. I do not currently know of a workaround; if you ever see a Mac OS X .pkg that installs stuff in /usr/local but does not exhibit this problem, please point me to it.

Changed 7 years ago by anonymous

  • os set to MacOS X
  • architecture set to powerpc

Changed 7 years ago by simonmar

  • difficulty set to Unknown
  • version changed from None to 6.4.1

Changed 7 years ago by igloo

  • testcase set to N/A
  • description modified (diff)
  • milestone set to _|_

Changed 5 years ago by simonmar

  • status changed from assigned to closed
  • resolution changed from None to wontfix

Closing, as this appears to be not our bug.

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