[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1, release candidate 1

[Carter Schonwald]

I'll take a look at the directions and validate they're correct. Just
finished up some family dinner stuff.

On Wednesday, January 13, 2016, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I asked the same question and Ben answered: (gmail default is reply and I
> forgot to do reply all)
>
> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/MacOSX
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Andrew Farmer <xichekolas at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','xichekolas at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing this is the same problem with gmp on OS X, but I got it
>> during the ./configure step, so thought I'd pass along the error
>> message:
>>
>> mba:ghc-8.0.0.20160111 xich$ ./configure
>> --prefix=/Users/xich/projects/ghc8
>> checking for path to top of build tree... dyld: Library not loaded:
>> /usr/local/opt/gmp/lib/libgmp.10.dylib
>>   Referenced from:
>>
>> /Users/xich/projects/ghc-8.0.0.20160111/utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd
>>   Reason: image not found
>> configure: error: cannot determine current directory
>>
>> You made reference to the wiki build instructions... do you have a
>> link to the ones you mean? I can try following them.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ben at well-typed.com');>> wrote:
>> > George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','george.colpitts at gmail.com');>> writes:
>> >
>> >> installs fine on mac but cabal install vector fails on primitive,
>> looks to
>> >> me like gmp library is not provided
>> >>
>> >> cabal install vector
>> >> Resolving dependencies...
>> >> Configuring primitive-0.6.1.0...
>> >> Failed to install primitive-0.6.1.0
>> >> Build log ( /Users/gcolpitts/.cabal/logs/primitive-0.6.1.0.log ):
>> >> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> >> primitive-0.6.1.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>> >> user error ('/usr/local/bin/ghc' exited with an error:
>> >> *ld: library not found for -lgmp*
>> >> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> >> `gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
>> >> )
>> >> vector-0.11.0.0 depends on primitive-0.6.1.0 which failed to install.
>> >>
>> > The issue here appears to be that the build was compiled against the
>> > host's libgmp on account of the the Wiki build instructions [1] being
>> out of
>> > date. I've fixed this particular inaccuracy, but it would be great if
>> > someone familiar with Darwin could take a close look at this page: do a
>> > build of their own, work through the build instructions, and ensure that
>> > the build instructions are still accurate, fixing any issues.
>> >
>> > George or Carter, perhaps one of you could pick this up?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > - Ben
>> >
>> >
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