ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.4

Wed Dec 24 17:56:50 UTC 2014

or worse case, just cabal install haddock and that will work fine

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>> >>
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>> >> place.
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
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