ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

[Carter Schonwald]

Ghc 7.8 supports only cabal 1.18
Could you try using the boot strap script for getting new cabal install on
your system?
If not, Austin probably has a cabal-install binary lying around for his
windows testing



On Friday, March 7, 2014, José Pedro Magalhães <jpm at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

> Should I file a bug report for this? If it's indeed a GHC bug, it's a
> blocker.
> Can anyone else confirm it?...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:17 AM, José Pedro Magalhães <jpm at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>
> 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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