ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

Fri Mar 7 15:24:36 UTC 2014

Cabal-1.18.1.3 and cabal-install-1.18.0.3, released a couple of days ago,
have some GHC 7.8 specific fixes. I don't know if those will help your
issue though.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:41 PM, José Pedro Magalhães <jpm at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

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>
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Carter Schonwald <
> 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 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/
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> g
>>>
>>>
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