[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 release candidate 3 available

[Andrés Sicard-Ramírez]

On 9 July 2017 at 11:50, David Feuer <david at well-typed.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, July 9, 2017 1:05:44 AM EDT Andrés Sicard-Ramírez wrote:
>> While testing this RC candidate on Agda we found a compilation error.
>>
>> The error was caused by an *unused* module which *is* compiled by this
>> RC but it *is not* compiled by previous versions of GHC including
>> 8.2.1 RC 2. This module was listed in the `other-modules` field of the
>> `test-suite` section in the .cabal file. After removing the offending
>> module, we didn't find more problems.
>>
>> While I think GHC is doing the right thing here, it is not an obvious
>> error on medium size projects like Agda. This is the reason for
>> sharing this information.
>
> Are you saying that Cabal is now compiling an unused module with legitimate
> errors that GHC detects?

No.

>From a personal message by Herbert:

On 9 July 2017 at 03:53, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel at gmail.com> wrote:
>  - Prior to Cabal 2.0, the modules listed in `other-modules` were only
>    passed to GHC for library stanzas, but not to
>    executables/benchmarks/test stanzas.
>

Example:

Let's suppose we have the following information in the .cabal file:

  test-suite foo-test
    other-modules: M1
                           , M2
                           , M3
                           , Bad

where `Bad.hs`

a) is not used by `foo-test` and

b) generates a compilation error.

Due to the above new feature mentioned by Herbert, GHC 8.2.1 RC3/Cabal
2.0 *correctly* report an error in `Bad.hs` but previous versions of
GHC/Cabal don't.

Best,

--
Andrés
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