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

Fri Feb 28 02:37:53 UTC 2014

I am sad. How do I uninstall the current version I have and install that
version?

Thanks

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> you need cabal-install 1.18 or you'll be sad.
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> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:16 PM, George Colpitts <
> george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm using Cabal-1.18.1.3 and cabal-install version 1.16.0.2
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>> 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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