issues on Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1, release candidate 1

[Matthew Pickering]

Hi George,

For the the second error, building cabal from the github repo will
stop the warnings.

Matt

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:43 PM, George Colpitts
<george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben
>
> Yes this fixes the issue I found on the Mac. Although it seems there is a
> minor problem that I encountered:
>
> sudo make install
> ...
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644  docs/users_guide/ghc.1
> "/usr/local/share/man/man1"
> install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71
> make: *** [install] Error 2
> bash-3.2$ rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1
>
>
> Also, again minor, with either source or binary distribution I am seeing the
> following warnings:
>
> Warning:
> /var/folders/9b/rh4y2gy92hgdb6ktv4df1jv00000gn/T/pkgConf-data-ordlist-0.4.78235644401115438165.0:
> Unrecognized field abi on line 15
>
> when doing cabal installs, e.g. cabal install data-ordlist
>
> I believe somebody else asked, do we intend to distribute llvm with 8.0.1.
> If so I will wait for the next release candidate to test llvm otherwise I
> will install llvm 3.7 and test llvm
>
> Thanks
> George
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>
>> George Colpitts <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
>> >
>> I have built a new OS X binary [1] which should be linked against the
>> in-tree libgmp, fixing this issue (which we've been tracking as Trac
>> #11423).
>>
>> I have also pushed a 32-bit Windows build.
>>
>> Perhaps those affected by this issue could try this distribution?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc1/ghc-8.0.0b.20160111-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz
>>
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