Ghc 7.8 supports only cabal 1.18 Could you try using the boot strap script for getting new cabal install on your system? If not, Austin probably has a cabal-install binary lying around for his windows testing
On Friday, March 7, 2014, José Pedro Magalhães <j...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > Should I file a bug report for this? If it's indeed a GHC bug, it's a > blocker. > Can anyone else confirm it?... > > > Thanks, > Pedro > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:17 AM, José Pedro Magalhães <j...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > > Hello, > > This GHC crashes whenever I try installing any package. (I guess this > might be due to cabal-install, though.) > > Details: > Using the RC2 at > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ghc-7.8.0.20140228-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz > OS: Win7 64bit > cabal-install version 0.14.0 > using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library > cabal install --nats -v3 gives this output <http://lpaste.net/100678>, > and brings up a standard windows application crash window before the > "returned ExitFailure (-1073741819)" line with the following information: > > Problem signature: > Problem Event Name: APPCRASH > Application Name: ghc.exe > Application Version: 0.0.0.0 > Application Timestamp: 5312f1e1 > Fault Module Name: ghc.exe > Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 > Fault Module Timestamp: 5312f1e1 > Exception Code: c0000005 > Exception Offset: 01adb323 > OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 > Locale ID: 2057 > Additional Information 1: 1548 > Additional Information 2: 1548a4345bd8ec1f0510cd3884fa5889 > Additional Information 3: daab > Additional Information 4: daabc1a5d9d41fd73825c2e9d33e1385 > > > I have later updated cabal-install (to version 1.18.0.2 using version > 1.18.1.2 of the Cabal library), but that > didn't change this problem. The same happened with RC1, btw. > > Thanks, > Pedro > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com>wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc2/html/ > > This includes the source tarball and binary distributions for Windows, > Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64, and more. There > are now two binary builds for Linux users: one for glibc 2.12 and GMP > 4, primarily intended for RHEL users, and one built for glibc 2.13 and > GMP 5 - intended for Debian and more recent machines. > > In addition, there is also an iOS cross compiler build (both in the > native ARM configuration and i386 simulator configurations), separate > Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 builds - the latter supporting dynamic > linking - and a new Linux/PPC64 build using glibc 2.18/GMP 5. There is > a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes available (attached) using my GPG > key (keyid 0x3B58D86F). > > We're also now offering .tar.xz files, which roughly cut the size of > the binary distributions in half compared to bzip2. > > We've closed approximately 45 tickets that people filed for RC1 in > this release. Thank you for all the reports! > > We plan to make the final 7.8.1 release soon, and hope RC2 will be the > last RC. So *please* test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper > if we find them before the release! > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > _______________________________________________ > g > >
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