[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available

[Matthew Pickering]

Hi Henning, I can't reproduce this error you are seeing. How are you
installing the compiler? GHC should use the in-tree libffi which is
the correct version.

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21956#note_446298

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 5:27 PM Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Ben Gamari wrote:
>
> > The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of the first
> > (and likely last) release candidate of GHC 9.4.1. Binary distributions, source
> > distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org].
>
> I try
>
> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.1-rc1/ghc-9.4.0.20220721-x86_64-deb11-linux.tar.lz
>
> on Debian 11.
>
> $ /usr/local/ghc-9.4.0/bin/ghc --version
> /usr/local/ghc-9.4.0/lib/ghc-9.4.0.20220721/bin/ghc-9.4.0.20220721: error
> while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.8: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
>
>
> Debian 11 seems to support only libffi7:
>
> $ dpkg --list "*libffi*"
>
> ii  libffi-dev:amd64 3.3-6        amd64        Foreign Function Interface library (development files)
> un  libffi4-dev      <keine>      <keine>      (keine Beschreibung vorhanden)
> ii  libffi7:amd64    3.3-6        amd64        Foreign Function Interface library runtime
> ii  libffi7:i386     3.3-6        i386         Foreign Function Interface library runtime
>
>
> I think this dependency is new and was not present in the Alpha releases.
>
>
>
> Also many directories have no read and cd permissions for 'other' users.
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