ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

[Carter Schonwald]

Woooops.  I misread the earlier email.

Did you wipe your .ghc dir and cabal/config files after updating to
cabal-install 1.18? It could be a stale cabal config that has shared set to
false or something?


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

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>
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> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Carter Schonwald <
> carter.schonwald at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','carter.schonwald at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Ghc 7.8 supports only cabal 1.18
>
>
> "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."
>
> Or do you mean I need something even more recent than this?
>
>
> Pedro
>
>
> 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 So
>
>
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