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

Fri Feb 28 14:13:46 UTC 2014

Thanks for everybody's help. I got the latest versions of cabal, installed
the "early" version of RC2 and then cabal install vector worked

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:37 PM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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