ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.4

Wed Dec 24 17:56:37 UTC 2014

try rm ~/.cabal/bin/haddock
and then type which haddock and you should be getting the
/usr/local/bin/haddock or whatever, then stuff should work fine

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Alfredo Di Napoli <
alfredo.dinapoli at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> Background
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
> >>
> >> GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell.  Included is
> >> an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
> >> platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
> >> development.  The distribution includes space and time profiling
> >> facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
> >> language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
> >> language interfaces (C, whatever).  GHC is distributed under a
> >> BSD-style open source license.
> >>
> >> A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
> >> specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
> >> contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
> >> Haskell home page (see below).
> >>
> >>
> >> On-line GHC-related resources
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
> >>
> >> GHC home page              http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> >> GHC developers' home page  http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
> >> Haskell home page          http://www.haskell.org/
> >>
> >>
> >> Supported Platforms
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
> >> is here:
> >>
> >>    http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms
> >>    http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners
> >>
> >> Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
> >> difficulty.  The Building Guide describes how
>
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