Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Arie Peterson
On Monday 03 February 2014 16:35:14 Austin Seipp wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: […] This includes the source tarball and bindists for Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64. […] Has anyone by chance built it for arm, yet? If

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Ryan Newton
I had some similar problems and had to fiddle with my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH so that ghc-related executables would see the libffi.dylib that comes with GHC before any of my system-wide installed libffi.dylib. Why the permissive @rpath link for libffi.dylib if the GHC executables are supposed to come

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Karel Gardas
On 02/ 5/14 03:09 PM, Arie Peterson wrote: On Monday 03 February 2014 16:35:14 Austin Seipp wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: […] This includes the source tarball and bindists for Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64. […] Has

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.02.2014, 15:53 +0100 schrieb Karel Gardas: Tried, on my ubuntu 12.04.02, but it fails miserably. Modern GHC requires alex 3.1 and cabal alex fails with (due to QuickCheck template haskell dependency): $ cabal install alex have you tried --disable-tests?

[Solaris bindist] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Hi, I was surprised to find a Solaris bindist. However, on our SunOS 5.10 ./configure failed miserably. -bash-3.2$ ./configure checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd-bindist:

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Christiaan Baaij
On Feb 5, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com wrote: I had some similar problems and had to fiddle with my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH so that ghc-related executables would see the libffi.dylib that comes with GHC before any of my system-wide installed libffi.dylib. Why the permissive

Re: [Solaris bindist] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.de [2014-02-05 16:28:50+0100] This happens, because our /bin/sh is a real sh (and not a bash) that only allows to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH as a separate command. You mean it's a real sh and not a POSIX-compatible one.

Re: [Solaris bindist] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Am 05.02.2014 16:45, schrieb Roman Cheplyaka: * Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.de [2014-02-05 16:28:50+0100] This happens, because our /bin/sh is a real sh (and not a bash) that only allows to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH as a separate command. You mean it's a real sh and not a

Re: [Solaris bindist] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.dewrote: Am 05.02.2014 16:45, schrieb Roman Cheplyaka: * Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.de [2014-02-05 16:28:50+0100] This happens, because our /bin/sh is a real sh (and not a bash) that only allows to export

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Arie Peterson
On Wednesday 05 February 2014 15:53:41 Karel Gardas wrote: Tried, on my ubuntu 12.04.02, but it fails miserably. Modern GHC requires alex 3.1 and cabal alex fails with (due to QuickCheck template haskell dependency): […] So, well, Catch-22? You can avoid this by installing QuickCheck

Re: [Solaris bindist] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com [2014-02-05 11:06:04-0500] On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.dewrote: Am 05.02.2014 16:45, schrieb Roman Cheplyaka: * Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.de [2014-02-05 16:28:50+0100] This happens, because

Re: [Solaris bindist] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Christian Maeder
Am 05.02.2014 17:06, schrieb Brandon Allbery: Whatever it is, maybe it is a Korn Shell under (older) Solaris, it does not support: The Korn shell is where the `export NAME=value` syntax originated. It is a Bourne Shell under (our) SunOS 5.10 (not to be mixed up with Bourne-again

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Karel Gardas
On 02/ 5/14 03:56 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.02.2014, 15:53 +0100 schrieb Karel Gardas: Tried, on my ubuntu 12.04.02, but it fails miserably. Modern GHC requires alex 3.1 and cabal alex fails with (due to QuickCheck template haskell dependency): $ cabal install alex

Re: [Solaris bindist] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Karel Gardas
Hi Christian, the bindist is compiled on Solaris 11.0 so probably of no use for you on Solaris 10. Also I needed to provide separate tarball of compiled and installed libgmp.so as the Solaris 11's provided does not satisfy GHC requirements and GHC refuses to use that... Karel On 02/ 5/14

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-05 Thread Karel Gardas
On 02/ 5/14 05:03 PM, Arie Peterson wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2014 15:53:41 Karel Gardas wrote: Tried, on my ubuntu 12.04.02, but it fails miserably. Modern GHC requires alex 3.1 and cabal alex fails with (due to QuickCheck template haskell dependency): […] So, well, Catch-22? You

empty stable and current bindist directories

2014-02-05 Thread harry
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ and http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ are empty. Is this correct? -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/empty-stable-and-current-bindist-directories-tp5743464.html Sent from the Haskell -