GHC 8.0.2 status

[Matthew Pickering]

The easiest way I found to build stackage recently was to take the
cabal.config file [1] and then manipulate it to just install each
package in turn.

cabal install package-1
cabal install package-2

This was quite a bit easier than using stackage-curator if you just
want to build packages to check that they work

[1]: https://www.stackage.org/lts-7.2/cabal.config

Matt

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
<ghc-devs at haskell.org> wrote:
> Smoke-testing with Stackage would be a great idea.  In the past Michael
> Snoyman has kindly done that for us, but ultimately some automation would be
> good.
>
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>
> Simon
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> From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Boespflug,
> Mathieu
> Sent: 04 October 2016 07:59
> To: Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>
> Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> Subject: Re: GHC 8.0.2 status
>
>
>
> Hi Ben,
>
>
>
> while in the eye of the cyclone, as we're waiting for these last few OS X
> issues to clear up... I was wondering, do you currently have a means to
> "vet" release candidates before cutting a new release?
>
>
>
> More to the point, to check that a point release like these doesn't include
> any breaking changes it might be useful to try compiling all of Stackage
> with it, even if it's just once, much like the Stackage curators do. As you
> may have seen a few hours ago, e.g. singletons doesn't compile using the
> current GHC 8.0.2 candidate (tip of ghc-8.0 branch). It did compile just
> fine using 8.0.1. And FWIW it also compiles okay with GHC HEAD.
>
>
>
> Likely this has been discussed before. So I'm just enquiring about status
> regarding adding this item in the workflow.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> --
> Mathieu Boespflug
> Founder at http://tweag.io.
>
>
>
> On 29 September 2016 at 19:54, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The week before ICFP I was able to get the ghc-8.0 branch ready for an
> 8.0.2 release, which I intended to cut this week. In the intervening
> time an additional rather serious issue was reported affected Mac OS X
> Sierra (#12479). Since this issue affects the usability of GHC on the
> new OS X release, we'll be deferring the 8.0.2 release until it has been
> resolved.
>
> While there appears to be an actionable path forward on this ticket, we
> will need someone with an affected machine and an understanding of GHC's
> use of dynamic linking to step up to implement. Otherwise it looks like
> the release will be delayed at least until October 9, when darchon has
> time to have a look.
>
> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
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