ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.4

Alfredo Di Napoli alfredo.dinapoli at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 16:40:55 UTC 2014


The installation succeedeed and GHC is working correctly.
But yes, "cabal haddock" seems to have some difficulty in the new version,
but I can't judge if it's my sandboxed environment (we use "hub" at work)
or the failure you mentioned.

Calling "haddock" alone works (using the previously installed on my
system), "cabal haddock" does not:

☁  mandrill [master] ⚡ haddock src/Network/API/Mandrill.hs
Haddock coverage:
Warning: main:Network.API.Mandrill: Could not find documentation for
exported module: M
Warning: Couldn't find .haddock for export Control.Monad.IO.Class.liftIO
 88% (  7 /  8) in 'Network.API.Mandrill'
Warning: Network.API.Mandrill: could not find link destinations for:
   Control.Monad.IO.Class.MonadIO
Network.API.Mandrill.Types.MandrillMessage
Network.API.Mandrill.Trans.MandrillT
Network.API.Mandrill.Types.MandrillResponse
Network.API.Mandrill.Messages.Types.MessagesResponse
Text.Email.Parser.EmailAddress Data.Text.Internal.Text Text.Blaze.Html.Html
GHC.Types.IO

☁  mandrill [master] ⚡ cabal haddock
cabal-1.20.0.0: You need to re-run the 'configure' command. The version of
Cabal being used has changed (was Cabal-1.18.1.5, now Cabal-1.20.0.0).
cabal haddock: /usr/hs/tools/cabal-1.20.0.0 failure (return code=1)

On Wednesday, 24 December 2014, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
wrote:
> sure, please verify first.  (also make sure haddock etc works for you, i
had to remove a haddock binary from ~/.cabal/bin before haddocks were
building correctly for me)
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Alfredo Di Napoli <
alfredo.dinapoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Carter!
>
> I have just asked basically about it on Reddit, in the announce thread.
> I'll give it a spin, and if it works I will share the link (if you are ok
with that!) on the
> same Reddit post.
>
> Alfredo
>
> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Heres a OS X build that should work with >= 10.7
>>
http://www.wellposed.com/opensource/ghc/releasebuild-unofficial/ghc-7.8.4-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
>>
>> and the sha 512
>> shasum -a512 ghc-7.8.4-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
>>
c6e76a2cd7ec7820d071ef1f417981845bb86c4c8337a57431136a375cbd0695fe810ec10963109ab1971d1a0ab80318c62d71b95eddb5657800cac296a260bd
 ghc-7.8.4-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
wrote:
>>
>> ==============================================================
>>     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.4
>> ==============================================================
>>
>> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC,
7.8.4.
>>
>> This is an important bugfix release relative to 7.8.3 (with over 30
>> defects fixed), so we highly recommend upgrading from the previous 7.8
>> releases.
>>
>> The full release notes are here:
>>
>>
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-8-4.html
>>
>> How to get it
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
>>
>>         https://www.haskell.org/ghc/
>>
>> We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
>> platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
>> place.
>>
>> Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
>> system isn't available yet, please try again later.
>>
>>
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>> ~~~~~~~~~~
>>
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>>
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