[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.3

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 07/13/2014 01:06 PM, Miëtek Bak wrote:
>>> haddock 2.14.3 that ships with it seems to be quite broken. Perhaps it's a
>>> bad interaction with cabal, it's hard to say from the outside, but here are
>>> some details.
>>>
>>> Here's the kind of error I get from haddock when I try to use cabal to
>>> install a package (primitive, in this case):
>>>
>>>    module ‘primitive-0.5.3.0:Main’ is defined in multiple files:
>>
>> I can't reproduce that here with a ghc-7.8.3/haddock-2.14.3 install on
>> Linux. However, this sounds *alot* like a Clang/CPP issue, specifically
>>
>> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1740#issuecomment-39559026
> 
> This is a Clang/CPP issue.  A workaround is to pass `—ghc-options=-optP-P` to `cabal haddock`.
> 
> The corresponding GHC issue was closed 5 weeks ago:
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9174
> 
> 

Right, as pointed out, this has been hacked around in cabal. I was under
the impression that the mentioned commit was going into whatever the
next cabal version is and that it would be in the cabal distributed with
7.8.3. Is that not the case?

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Mateusz K.