[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available

[Ben Gamari]

George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> writes:

> +Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp>
>
> Hi Ben
>
> My 2 machines also have:
>
> $ spctl --status
> assessments enabled
>
Hmm, interesting. Then I am truly perplexed.

> Speculations:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ghc-9.4.0.20220721/bin/../lib/x86_64-osx-ghc-9.4.0.20220721/libHSterminfo-0.4.1.5-ghc9.4.0.20220721.dylib
> is created after xattr -rc . was run so it doesn't have the necessary
> attributes. Is it possible that ghc developers and/or the test machines
> have this file on another of the paths in the error message and that is why
> it works for them?
>
I'm not sure where this would be but at this point anything is possible. What happens
if you try to install to do something like (in the extracted binary distribution),

    $ ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/tmp
    $ make install            # this will fail
    $ xattr -rc .
    $ make install            # perhaps this will finish successfully?
    # tmp/bin/ghc --version   # GHC should be usable

> I hope I didn't offend you by asking if the fix had been tested; I assume
> it had been but I thought it was important to rule that out.
>
Not to worry; it's a very reasonable question to ask given the circumstances.

> More than happy to test. I really appreciate all the work you and others
> have put into GHC !
>
Ultimately I think we may just need to bite the bullet and start
properly notarising/codesigning releases (resolving #17418). At this point we have
spent more time trying to avoid the notarisation requirement than
it would likely take to satisfy it. Unfortunately, this will require
that I find an Apple device somewhere which may take a few weeks.

I'm afraid I am on holiday next week but I would quite grateful if we
could arrange for a chat after I return such that we can debug this in
realtime.

Cheers,

- Ben
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