I just committed this release note info to the users guide. Hopefully nobody else will trip over it. :)
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks George. Since this might be confusing for users, I'll add a > note to to the release notes about requiring Cabal 1.18 for GHC to > work properly. > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:13 AM, George Colpitts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for everybody's help. I got the latest versions of cabal, installed >> the "early" version of RC2 and then cabal install vector worked >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:37 PM, George Colpitts >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am sad. How do I uninstall the current version I have and install that >>> version? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Carter Schonwald >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> you need cabal-install 1.18 or you'll be sad. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:16 PM, George Colpitts >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm using Cabal-1.18.1.3 and cabal-install version 1.16.0.2 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. Another question is what version of Cabal you are using, as it >>>>>> knows how to build dylibs properly. I'm using cabal 1.18. >>>>>> >>>>>> To delete the RC, you can just delete the directory it installed into >>>>>> (the GHC-7.8.xxxxx folder). Also make sure you remove the executables >>>>>> from >>>>>> $PATH >>>>>> >>>>>> And no worries about any unnecessary work. I'm here to do the release >>>>>> after all, and feedback is helpful! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, February 27, 2014, George Colpitts >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Probably my error, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a problem >>>>>>> that was missed. Thanks for checking. Sorry for any confusion I caused. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Here are the details of what I did: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I took ghc-7.8.0.20140226-x86_64-apple-darwin-mavericks.tar.bz2 from >>>>>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ and followed the >>>>>>> instructions in >>>>>>> the INSTALL file to install it, i.e. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> One possible difference is that my gcc is gcc-4.8 from gnu not gcc >>>>>>> from Apple. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Also my uname output is different than yours: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> uname -a >>>>>>> Darwin iMac27-5.local 13.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 >>>>>>> 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Finally I am running XCode 5.2 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there a to uninstall or clean these RCs? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'll wait for official notice before trying anything else >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I really appreciate all your work and I'm sorry if I caused you any >>>>>>> unnecessary work. I had no problems installing RC1 so may have been >>>>>>> overconfident >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I just tested this and cannot reproduce it: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> $ cabal install vector >>>>>>> ... building ... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> $ ls /Users/a/.cabal/lib/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.0.20140226/vector-0.10.9.1 >>>>>>> Data libHSvector-0.10.9.1-ghc7.8.0.20140226.dylib include >>>>>>> libHSvector-0.10.9.1.a >>>>>>> >>>>>>> $ ls >>>>>>> /Users/a/.cabal/lib/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.0.20140226/primitive-0.5.2.1/ >>>>>>> Control include libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1.a Data >>>>>>> libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1-ghc7.8.0.20140226.dylib >>>>>>> >>>>>>> $ uname -a >>>>>>> Darwin Calcifer.local 13.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 >>>>>>> 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There is certainly a dylib available for both of these libraries. >>>>>>> You're going to need to be very explicit in what you did to install >>>>>>> GHC, and how. (Did you use the binary distribution I pulled from the >>>>>>> server?)* Unfortunately I'm about to run out the door, and don't have >>>>>>> time for the next few hours closely investigate. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> * On another note, I will say that there is not an 'RC2' until I >>>>>>> announce that it is so, to be completely honest. Right this second, >>>>>>> some last minute fixes went into HEAD which will be merged for the >>>>>>> actual RC2. Otherwise I would have released it today. But thank you >>>>>>> for testing anyway! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:53 PM, George Colpitts >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> > corrected subject line >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:47 PM, George Colpitts >>>>>>> > <[email protected]> >>>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> Hi >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> After installing the first version of RC2 I ran into the following >>>>>>> >> problem >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> cabal install vector >>>>>>> >> Resolving dependencies... >>>>>>> >> Configuring vector-0.10.9.1... >>>>>>> >> ... >>>>>>> >> [ 5 of 19] Compiling Data.Vector.Fusion.Stream.Monadic ( >>>>>>> >> Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Monadic.hs, >>>>>>> >> dist/build/Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Monadic.o ) >>>>>>> >> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. >>>>>>> >> Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. >>>>>>> >> Loading package base ... linking ... done. >>>>>>> >> Loading package primitive-0.5.2.1 ... <command line>: can't load >>>>>>> >> .so/.DLL >>>>>>> >> for: libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1.dylib >>>>>>> >> (dlopen(libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1.dylib, 9): >>>>>>> >> image not found) >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> There seems to be a general problem that the install did not >>>>>>> >> produce any >>>>>>> >> dynamic libraries at least on the Mac: >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> ls /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/*/lib >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/cpphs-1.18.2/lib: >>>>>>> >> HScpphs-1.18.2.o Language Text libHScpphs-1.18.2.a >>>>>>> >> libHScpphs-1.18.2_p.a >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/hashable-1.2.1.0/lib: >>>>>>> >> Data HShashable-1.2.1.0.o libHShashable-1.2.1.0.a >>>>>>> >> libHShashable-1.2.1.0_p.a >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/hscolour-1.20.3/lib: >>>>>>> >> HShscolour-1.20.3.o Language libHShscolour-1.20.3.a >>>>>>> >> libHShscolour-1.20.3_p.a >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/primitive-0.5.2.1/lib: >>>>>>> >> Control HSprimitive-0.5.2.1.o libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1.a >>>>>>> >> Data include libHSprimitive-0.5.2.1_p.a >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/syb-0.4.1/lib: >>>>>>> >> Data Generics HSsyb-0.4.1.o libHSsyb-0.4.1.a libHSsyb-0.4.1_p.a >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/text-1.1.0.0/lib: >>>>>>> >> Data HStext-1.1.0.0.o libHStext-1.1.0.0.a libHStext-1.1.0.0_p.a >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.0.20140226/lib/unordered-containers-0.2.3.3/lib: >>>>>>> >> Data libHSunordered-containers-0.2.3.3.a >>>>>>> >> HSunordered-containers-0.2.3.3.o >>>>>>> >> libHSunordered-containers-0.2.3.3_p.a >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> > ghc-devs mailing list >>>>>>> > [email protected] >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant >>>>>> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> ghc-devs mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
