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

[Henning Thielemann]

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.