ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

[José Pedro Magalhães]

Hello,

This GHC crashes whenever I try installing any package. (I guess this might
be due to cabal-install, though.)

Details:
  Using the RC2 at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ghc-7.8.0.20140228-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz
  OS: Win7 64bit
  cabal-install version 0.14.0
  using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library
  cabal install --nats -v3 gives this output <http://lpaste.net/100678>,
and brings up a standard windows application crash window before the
"returned ExitFailure (-1073741819)" line with the following information:

Problem signature:
>   Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
>   Application Name: ghc.exe
>   Application Version: 0.0.0.0
>   Application Timestamp: 5312f1e1
>   Fault Module Name: ghc.exe
>   Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
>   Fault Module Timestamp: 5312f1e1
>   Exception Code: c0000005
>   Exception Offset: 01adb323
>   OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
>   Locale ID: 2057
>   Additional Information 1: 1548
>   Additional Information 2: 1548a4345bd8ec1f0510cd3884fa5889
>   Additional Information 3: daab
>   Additional Information 4: daabc1a5d9d41fd73825c2e9d33e1385


I have later updated cabal-install (to version 1.18.0.2 using version
1.18.1.2 of the Cabal library), but that
didn't change this problem. The same happened with RC1, btw.

Thanks,
Pedro



On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.8.1:
>
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc2/html/
>
> This includes the source tarball and binary distributions for Windows,
> Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64, and more. There
> are now two binary builds for Linux users: one for glibc 2.12 and GMP
> 4, primarily intended for RHEL users, and one built for glibc 2.13 and
> GMP 5 - intended for Debian and more recent machines.
>
> In addition, there is also an iOS cross compiler build (both in the
> native ARM configuration and i386 simulator configurations), separate
> Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 builds - the latter supporting dynamic
> linking - and a new Linux/PPC64 build using glibc 2.18/GMP 5. There is
> a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes available (attached) using my GPG
> key (keyid 0x3B58D86F).
>
> We're also now offering .tar.xz files, which roughly cut the size of
> the binary distributions in half compared to bzip2.
>
> We've closed approximately 45 tickets that people filed for RC1 in
> this release. Thank you for all the reports!
>
> We plan to make the final 7.8.1 release soon, and hope RC2 will be the
> last RC. So *please* test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper
> if we find them before the release!
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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