[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.0.1-alpha1 released

[Moritz Angermann]

No. Not necessarily. We can perfectly fine load archives and the pre-linked
ghci objects. However dlopen with musl on x86 seems fine. On arm it’s not
implemented, and just throws an error message. There is a -dynamic flag in
HEAD, which disables GHC even trying to load dynamic libraries and always
assuming there is no dynamic linking facility, even if configure reports
the existence of dlopen...

On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 6:54 PM, Cheng Shao <cheng.shao at tweag.io> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
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> > We will likely transition the Alpine binary distribution to be fully
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>    statically-linked, providing a convenient, distribution-independent
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>    packaging option for Linux users.
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> iirc for statically linked executables, musl doesn't even support
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> dlopen, so wouldn't this mean such a bindist would fail for all
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> LoadDLL ghci commands?
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> Cheers,
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> Cheng
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> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 9:15 PM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
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> > Hello all,
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> >
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> > The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of the first
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> > alpha release in the GHC 9.0 series. Source and binary distributions are
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> > available at the usual place:
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> >     https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1-alpha1/
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> >
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> > This first alpha comes quite a bit later than expected. However, we have
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> > done a significant amount of testing on this pre-release and therefore
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> > hope to be able to move forward quickly with a release candidate next
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> > week and with a final release in mid-October.
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> >
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> > GHC 9.0.1 will bring a number of new features:
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> >
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> >  * A first cut of the new LinearTypes language extension [1], allowing
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> >    use of linear function syntax and linear record fields.
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> >
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> >  * A new bignum library (ghc-bignum), allowing GHC to be more easily
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> >    used with integer libraries other than GMP.
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> >
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> >  * Improvements in code generation, resulting in considerable
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> >    performance improvements in some programs.
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> >
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> >  * Improvements in pattern-match checking, allowing more precise
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> >    detection of redundant cases and reduced compilation time.
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> >
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> >  * Implementation of the "simplified subsumption" proposal [2]
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> >    simplifying the type system and paving the way for QuickLook
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> >    impredicativity in GHC 9.2.
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> >
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> >  * Implementation of the QualifiedDo extension [3], allowing more
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> >    convenient overloading of `do` syntax.
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> >
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> >  * Improvements in compilation time.
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> >
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> > And many more. See the release notes [4] for a full accounting of the
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> > changes in this release.
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> >
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> > Do note that there are a few things that we expect will change before
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> > the final release:
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> >  * We expect to sort out a notarization workflow for Apple Darwin,
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> >    allowing our binary distributions to be used on macOS Catalina
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> >    without hassle.
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> >
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> >    Until this has been sorted out Catalina users can exempt the
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> >    current macOS binary distribution from the notarization requirement
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> >    themselves by running `xattr -cr .` on the unpacked tree before
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> >    running `make install`.
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> >
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> >  * We will likely transition the Alpine binary distribution to be fully
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> >    statically-linked, providing a convenient, distribution-independent
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> >    packaging option for Linux users.
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> >
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> >  * We will be merging a robust solution for #17760 which will introduce
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> >    a new primitive, `keepAlive#`, to the `base` library, subsuming
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> >    most uses of `touch#`.
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> >
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> > As always, do test this release and open tickets for whatever issues you
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> > encounter. To help with this, we will be publishing a blog post
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> > describing use of our new `head.hackage` infrastructure to ease testing
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> > of larger projects with Hackage dependencies later this week.
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> >
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> > Cheers,
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> >
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> > - Ben
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> >
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> >
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> > [1]
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0111-linear-types.rst
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> > [2]
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0287-simplify-subsumption.rst
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> > [3]
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0216-qualified-do.rst
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> > [4]
> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1-alpha1/docs/html/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.html
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