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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-03 14:27:11 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-03 15:12:31 -0400
commit619d765646a23d7f22ac8c0dd256be10a5a278f7 (patch)
tree1ebec481156629158410a61990300c46070044bd
parentc74f39843bd07fa86cfa2b1261912013caa05f55 (diff)
simplify OSX installation instructions
The new Haskell Platform was released today, with the new ghc git-annex's master branch needs, so cabal should be usable again on OSX.
-rw-r--r--doc/install/OSX.mdwn13
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install/OSX.mdwn b/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
index 1d8a3b943..3c2460968 100644
--- a/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Install Haskel Platform from [[http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html]].
+Install the Haskell Platform from [[http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html]].
The version provided by Macports is too old to work with current versions of git-annex.
Then execute
@@ -7,19 +7,10 @@ sudo port install git-core ossp-uuid md5sha1sum coreutils pcre
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/pcre.h /usr/include/pcre.h # This is hack that allows pcre-light to find pcre
-git clone git://git-annex.branchable.com/ git-annex
-cd git-annex
-git checkout ghc7.0
-
sudo cabal update
-cabal install --only-dependencies
-cabal configure
-cabal build
-cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin
+cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin
</pre>
-Originally posted by Jon at <https://gist.github.com/671785> --[[Joey]], modified by [[kristianrumberg]]
-
See also:
* [[forum/OSX__39__s_haskell-platform_statically_links_things]]