[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1, release candidate 1

[George Colpitts]

That error is only on the binary distribution, building from source works
fine

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:28 PM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The GHC Team is very pleased to announce the first release candidate of
>> the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1 release. Source and binary
>> distributions as well as the newly revised users guide can be found at
>>
>>     http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc1/
>>
>> This is the first in a series of release candidates which will allow us
>> to get wider testing of the significant changes that have occurred since
>> the 7.10 series. These include,
>>
>>  * the TypeInType extension, which unifies types and kinds allowing for
>>    promotion of more Haskell constructs to the type-level
>>
>>  * the introduction of type application in source programs
>>
>>  * support for recursive superclass relationships
>>
>>  * support for Applicative do notation
>>
>>  * introduction of the DuplicateRecordFields language extension
>>
>>  * a rewritten and substantially more thorough pattern match checker
>>
>>  * the introduction of injective type classes
>>
>>  * introduction of the Strict and StrictData language extensions,
>>    allowing modules to be compiled with strict-by-default evaluation
>>    of bindings
>>
>>  * the ability to run the GHCi interpreter in a separate process,
>>    allowing a callstacks in GHCi, easier integration with tooling, and
>>    more
>>
>> and much more.
>>
>> Changes of this magnitude will invariably bring bugs. This release
>> candidate in particular is known to suffer from a few significant issues
>> which are being actively worked upon,
>>
>>  * The new -XInjectiveTypeFamilies language extension will likely be
>>    renamed to -XTypeFamilyDependencies
>>
>>  * #11120: Type representations are missing for some types and promoted
>>    constructors
>>
>>  * #11334: Solving for Typeable (Proxy :: Proxy 'Compose) fails
>>
>>  * #11276: Pattern checker performance can degrade significantly in
>>    presence of pattern matches with guards
>>
>>  * #11405: Type-level skolem-escape check fails incorrectly
>>
>>  * #11414: Use of -XStrict results in compiler abort
>>
>>  * #11379: Instance solver fails to terminate
>>
>>  * #11419: Haddock documentation is currently not included in the binary
>>    distributions (and hence is missing on downloads.haskell.org)
>>
>>  * #11370: -Wredundant-constraints being included in -Wall breaks
>>    the three-release compatibility policy
>>
>> In the coming weeks we will continue to iterate on these issues. We will
>> also look at Trac tickets marked with "highest" priority on the release
>> status page [2].
>>
>> If you have a ticket that you would like to see addressed that does not
>> meet one of these criteria, please bring this to our attention.
>> Likewise, if you encounter an issue please open a ticket if one does not
>> already exist.
>>
>> Also note that we currently cannot offer 32-bit Windows builds due to
>> breaking changing in a recent Windows 10 upgrade. We'll work to
>> resolve this before the 8.0 release but please let us know if this poses
>> a significant problem for you.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-12/msg00003.htm
>> [2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-8.0.1
>>
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