I can't build HEAD

[Oleg Grenrus]

Thank you Matt for being strict

This kind of issue have bitten me in the past e.g.
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/22450
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/22245

So I really welcome the change in policy

- Oleg

On 10.7.2023 11.55, Matthew Pickering wrote:
> The ticket which tracks bumping the bootstrap compiler to 9.4 is
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/23195
>
> We should bump all the images and update the configure check *before*
> merging changes which require a newer bootstrap compiler.
>
> I imagine this problem has been introduced by
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/10827 so I will
> revert that commit for now until the relevant other parts have been
> updated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
> On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 9:53 PM Simon Peyton Jones
> <simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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