first version of RC2 has problems with lack of dynamic libraries at least on the Mac

Fri Feb 28 02:27:36 UTC 2014

you need cabal-install 1.18 or you'll be sad.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:16 PM, George Colpitts
<george.colpitts at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm using Cabal-1.18.1.3 and cabal-install version 1.16.0.2
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Another question is what version of Cabal you are using, as it
>> knows how to build dylibs properly. I'm using cabal 1.18.
>>
>> To delete the RC, you can just delete the directory it installed into
>> (the GHC-7.8.xxxxx folder). Also make sure you remove the executables from
>> $PATH
>>
>> And no worries about any unnecessary work. I'm here to do the release
>> after all, and feedback is helpful!
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, February 27, 2014, George Colpitts <
>> george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Probably my error, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a problem
>>> that was missed. Thanks for checking. Sorry for any confusion I caused.
>>>
>>> Here are the details of what I did:
>>>
>>> I took ghc-7.8.0.20140226-x86_64-apple-darwin-mavericks.tar.bz2 from
>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ and followed the
>>> instructions in the INSTALL file to install it, i.e.
>>>
>>> One possible difference is that my gcc is gcc-4.8 from gnu not gcc from
>>> Apple.
>>>
>>> Also my uname output is different than yours:
>>>
>>> uname -a
>>> Darwin iMac27-5.local 13.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16
>>> 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>>>
>>>
>>> Finally I am running XCode 5.2
>>>
>>> Is there a to uninstall or clean these RCs?
>>>
>>> I'll wait for official notice before trying anything else
>>>
>>> I really appreciate all your work and I'm sorry if I caused you any
>>> unnecessary work. I had no problems installing RC1 so may have been
>>> overconfident
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>wrote:
>>>
>>> I just tested this and cannot reproduce it:
>>>
>>> $ cabal install vector
>>> ... building ...
>>>
>>> $ ls /Users/a/.cabal/lib/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.0.20140226/vector-0.10.9.1
>>> Data libHSvector-0.10.9.1-ghc7.8.0.20140226.dylib include
>>> libHSvector-0.10.9.1.a
>>>
>>> $ ls /Users/a/.cabal/lib/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.0.20140226/primitive-0.5.2.1/
>>> Control include libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1.a Data
>>> libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1-ghc7.8.0.20140226.dylib
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> Darwin Calcifer.local 13.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19
>>> 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>>>
>>> There is certainly a dylib available for both of these libraries.
>>> You're going to need to be very explicit in what you did to install
>>> GHC, and how. (Did you use the binary distribution I pulled from the
>>> server?)* Unfortunately I'm about to run out the door, and don't have
>>> time for the next few hours closely investigate.
>>>
>>> * On another note, I will say that there is not an 'RC2' until I
>>> announce that it is so, to be completely honest. Right this second,
>>> some last minute fixes went into HEAD which will be merged for the
>>> actual RC2. Otherwise I would have released it today. But thank you
>>> for testing anyway!
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:53 PM, George Colpitts
>>> <george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > corrected subject line
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:47 PM, George Colpitts <
>>> george.colpitts at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi
>>> >>
>>> >> After installing the first version of RC2 I ran into the following
>>> problem
>>> >>
>>> >>  cabal install vector
>>> >> Resolving dependencies...
>>> >> Configuring vector-0.10.9.1...
>>> >> ...
>>> >> [ 5 of 19] Compiling Data.Vector.Fusion.Stream.Monadic (
>>> >> Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Monadic.hs,
>>> >> dist/build/Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Monadic.o )
>>> >> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
>>> >> Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
>>> >> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
>>> >> Loading package primitive-0.5.2.1 ... <command line>: can't load
>>> .so/.DLL
>>> >> for: libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1.dylib
>>> (dlopen(libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1.dylib, 9):
>>> >> image not found)
>>> >>
>>> >> There seems to be a general problem that the install did not produce
>>> any
>>> >> dynamic libraries at least on the Mac:
>>> >>
>>> >>  ls /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/*/lib
>>> >>
>>> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/cpphs-1.18.2/lib:
>>> >> HScpphs-1.18.2.o Language Text libHScpphs-1.18.2.a
>>> libHScpphs-1.18.2_p.a
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/hashable-1.2.1.0/lib:
>>> >> Data HShashable-1.2.1.0.o libHShashable-1.2.1.0.a
>>> >> libHShashable-1.2.1.0_p.a
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/hscolour-1.20.3/lib:
>>> >> HShscolour-1.20.3.o Language libHShscolour-1.20.3.a
>>> >> libHShscolour-1.20.3_p.a
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/primitive-0.5.2.1/lib:
>>> >> Control HSprimitive-0.5.2.1.o libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1.a
>>> >> Data include libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1_p.a
>>> >>
>>> >> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/syb-0.4.1/lib:
>>> >> Data Generics HSsyb-0.4.1.o libHSsyb-0.4.1.a libHSsyb-0.4.1_p.a
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/text-1.1.0.0/lib:
>>> >> Data HStext-1.1.0.0.o libHStext-1.1.0.0.a libHStext-1.1.0.0_p.a
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/unordered-containers-0.2.3.3/lib:
>>> >> Data libHSunordered-containers-0.2.3.3.a
>>> >> HSunordered-containers-0.2.3.3.o libHSunordered-containers-0.2.3.3_p.a
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
>> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
>>
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