ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 1

[Austin Seipp]

Hi Jens,

This was a result of https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9652,
which Edward fixed and I'll be merging into the 7.10 branch for RC2.

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Jens Petersen <juhpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 December 2014 at 23:36, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>
>> We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.10.1:
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Maybe this is already fixed in git, but it seems to me that RC1 is not able
> to build itself?
>
> ghc-cabal: '/usr/bin/ghc-pkg' exited withghc-cabal: '/usr/bin/ghc-pkg'
> exited with an error:
> ghc-pkg: ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases
> (/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-7.10.0.20141222/libraries/bootstrapping.conf) use
> 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database with the correct format.
>  an error:
> ghc-pkg: ghc no longer supportutils/hsc2hs/ghc.mk:15: recipe for target
> 'utils/hsc2hs/dist/package-data.mk' failed
> make[1]: *** [utils/hsc2hs/dist/package-data.mk] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> s single-file style package databases
> (/builddir/build/BUILD/ghc-7.10.0.20141222/libraries/bootstrapping.conf) use
> 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database with the correct format.
> libraries/binary/ghc.mk:3: recipe for target
> 'libraries/binary/dist-boot/package-data.mk' failed
> make[1]: *** [libraries/binary/dist-boot/package-data.mk] Error 1
> Makefile:71: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> (See current
> https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/petersen/ghc-7.10/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/ghc-7.10.0.20141222-0.2.fc21/
> for the full buildlog.)
>
> Is that a known issue?
>
> Jens



-- 
Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/