[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1 released

Sun Sep 23 01:33:19 UTC 2018

Yes, it worked for me.

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 7:44 PM Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone installed the OS X binary distribution?  I get:
>
> "utils/ghc-cabal/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-cabal-bindist" copy
> libraries/ghc-prim dist-install "strip" '' '/usr/local'
> '/usr/local/lib/ghc-8.6.1'
> '/usr/local/share/doc/ghc-8.6.1/html/libraries' 'v p dyn'
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/gmp/lib/libgmp.10.dylib
>   Referenced from:
>
> /usr/local/src/hs/ghc-8.6.1/libraries/base/dist-install/build/libHSbase-4.12.0.0-ghc8.6.1.dylib
>   Reason: image not found
>
> otool -L on libHSBase indeed shows a reference to
> /usr/local/opt/gmp/lib/libgmp.10.dylib, which of course doesn't exist,
> not being a standard location.  otool on 8.4.2's libHSBase has no
> reference to libgmp at all.  Both of them have
> @rpath/libHSinteger-gmp-1.0.2.0-ghc$version.dylib, but perhaps that's
> just ghc's binding to libgmp.
>
> I don't actually know how ghc links libgmp nowadays.  Perhaps the
> usual OS X build statically links libgmp and some flags got wrong for
> this one and it wound up dynamic?
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 5:57 PM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.1, the
> > fourth major release in the GHC 8 series. The source distribution, binary
> > distributions, and documentation for this release are available at
> >
> >     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1
> >
> > The 8.6 release fixes over 400 bugs from the 8.4 series and introduces a
> > number of exciting features. These most notably include:
> >
> >  * A new deriving mechanism, `deriving via`, providing a convenient way
> >    for users to extend Haskell's typeclass deriving mechanism
> >
> >  * Quantified constraints, allowing forall quantification in constraint
> contexts
> >
> >  * An early version of the GHCi `:doc` command
> >
> >  * The `ghc-heap-view` package, allowing introspection into the
> >    structure of GHC's heap
> >
> >  * Valid hole fit hints, helping the user to find terms to fill typed
> >    holes in their programs
> >
> >  * The BlockArguments extension, allowing the `$` operator to be omitted
> >    in some unambiguous contexts
> >
> >  * An exciting new plugin mechanism, source plugins, allowing plugins to
> >    inspect and modify a wide variety of compiler representations.
> >
> >  * Improved recompilation checking when plugins are used
> >
> >  * Significantly better handling of macOS linker command size limits,
> >    avoiding linker errors while linking large projects
> >
> >  * The next phase of the MonadFail proposal, enabling
> >    -XMonadFailDesugaring by default
> >
> > A full list of the changes in this release can be found in the
> > release notes:
> >
> >
> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.6.1-notes.html
> >
> > Perhaps of equal importance, GHC 8.6 is the second major release made
> > under GHC's accelerated six-month release schedule and the first set of
> > binary distributions built primarily using our new continuous
> > integration scheme. While the final 8.6 release is around three weeks
> > later than initially scheduled due to late-breaking bug reports, we
> > expect that the 8.8 release schedule shouldn't be affected.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who has contributed to developing, documenting, and
> > testing this release!
> >
> > As always, let us know if you encounter trouble.
> >
> >
> > How to get it
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
> >
> >         https://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> >
> > We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
> > platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
> > place.
> >
> > Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
> > system isn't available yet, please try again later.
> >
> >
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> >
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