GHC 8.0.1-rc3 and required version of elfutils [Was: GHC 8.0.1-rc3 source tarball availability]

[Ben Gamari]

Andrés Sicard-Ramírez <asr at eafit.edu.co> writes:

> On 10 April 2016 at 20:55, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>> I've pushed a new tarball based on
>> 9c48d8a02dd80bba3bd313bc52add841530e28dc. I have pushed essentially
>> everything into this candidate that I expect will go into 8.0.1. It
>> validates but it isn't nearly as well tested as the previous tree. I'll
>> try doing some further builds tomorrow and let you all know if anything
>> goes awry.
>
> From running `./configure` on
>
>   http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc3/ghc-8.0.0.20160408-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.xz
>
This binary distribution was uploaded unintentionally and was built for
general public consumption. Our binary distributions won't be built with
libdw support

> it seems that the required version of elfutils is 0.158, however this
> version of elfutils is not checked when running `./configure` on
>
>   http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc3/ghc-8.0.0.20160411-src.tar.xz
>
> That is, instead of get an error on configuration time because my
> version of elfutils is too old, I get an error on compilation time.
>
Ahhh, yes, it seems like neither the source nor binary distribution
configure scripts actually check for the libdw version. Thanks for
noticing this! I've opened #11820 to track this and D2103 with what I
believe is a fix.

Cheers,

- Ben
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