I can't build HEAD

[Simon Peyton Jones]

>
> Upgrade your bootstrap compiler to >= 9.4. We have now bumped HEAD's
> version to 9.8, which means that 9.4 is the earliest possible bootstrap
> compiler (which `text` now takes advantage of, as you see here). I have
>

Aha.  I'll do that.

You have to admit, the error message is not helpful :-).  A suggestion for
the future: when bumping the minimum bootstrap compiler, it would be
possible (in the same commit) to fix configure to complain about too-early
versions?

Anyway I'm now building with 9.6, and doubtless that will be fine.  Thanks.

Simon



On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 18:49, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:

> Simon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > in a clean HEAD build, including "git submodule update", I get this.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> Upgrade your bootstrap compiler to >= 9.4. We have now bumped HEAD's
> version to 9.8, which means that 9.4 is the earliest possible bootstrap
> compiler (which `text` now takes advantage of, as you see here). I have
> a patch bumping the `configure` check stewing in my 9.8 preparation
> branch.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
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