[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-alpha1 available

[Fabien R]

On 20/12/17 21:48, Ben Gamari wrote:
> 
> The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release
> of the 8.4.1 release. The usual release artifacts are available from
> 
>     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1-alpha1

I tried to build the release from this script [1] which works
straightfully for GHC 8.2.2 on debian jessie.
1) There's a minor glitch showing:
GHC_VERSION = 8.4.1
but the version of the file in the download area is 8.4.0.20171214

2) GHC and cabal library installed successfully whereas cabal-install
failed with this error:

Linking Setup ...
Configuring HTTP-4000.3.7...
Setup: Encountered missing dependencies:
base >=4.3.0.0 && <4.11


Error during cabal-install bootstrap:
Configuring the HTTP package failed.

Any hint ?

--
Fabien


[1] gist.github.com/yantonov/10083524