I'll see if I can bake a build from source myself and share it. On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wasn't aware it completely broke on El Capitan, but I think that's a > pretty extreme case (where a completely usable release simply breaks > because a hugely popular OS changes) that would warrant a 7.8.5 > release, to be honest. Presumably, this would really be the only > change, so mostly OS X users would be affected by its availability. > > In general people like to use the last 3 GHC releases anyway, and we > haven't even *released* 8.0 yet. And at that point, 7.8.x will be the > last 'in the chain' - so I can assume people would _still_ want 7.8 on > OS X presumably, even more than a year from today until 8.2! > > At that point (8.2-ish era) if Apple keeps breaking things, we may not > do another release, but in this case I think the timescale for > user/library support is probably worth it. Otherwise OS X users are > going to have to fix it themselves, and it might be ugly (propagating > random fixes around the internet isn't going to work well, and we'll > just keep getting bug reports about this because of that - we've > already done this dance with OS X.) > > I'll note this down and think about it more this week, since we'd like > to get 7.10.3 out soon as well... > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Adam Foltzer <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > 7.8.4 is was released only ten months ago; it surprises me that we'd > > consider it acceptable to have such a recent release fail to work on new > > machines when the fix is so small as to not even require a patch to the > > source tree. In particular, I remember hearing proponents of 7.10's > changes > > reassure detractors that if they choose, they can continue to use 7.8.4, > > which is no longer an option. > > > > I'd ask that we (1) reconsider the decision to stop 7.8 releases, and > (2) if > > we stand by the decision, document the mitigations for users who would > like > > to build their own working version of the compiler. I just finished a > build > > from a source dist with `unix-2.7.1.0` and it still triggers the El > Capitan > > error, so I suspect it's not as simple as just dropping the new package > into > > `/libraries/unix/`. > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Carter Schonwald > > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> > >> There are no plans to do a new 7.8 release at this Time. Even doing a > >> point release for 7.10.3 is still speculative. > >> > >> We should reflect the capitan issue in the installation documentation. > >> And or remark that only 7.10 or newer is supported on El Capitan. > >> > >> If a user needs a 7.8 build that works on capitan, they will need to > build > >> a source dist with an updated UNIX package. > >> > >> > >> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Adam Foltzer <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> The issue was brought up on this list [1] that the released versions of > >>> GHC 7.8 do not work on El Capitan due to an older `unix` package. In a > >>> subsequent GHC weekly news [2], it was announced that since El Capitan > >>> wasn't yet released, it wasn't worthwhile to put more developer time > into > >>> 7.8. > >>> > >>> Now that El Capitan is out, and the existing 7.8 binaries continue to > not > >>> work, I'd like to reopen this issue and request a point release with an > >>> updated `unix` package. > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> > >>> Adam Foltzer > >>> Research Engineer > >>> Galois, Inc. > >>> > >>> [1]: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-July/009403.html > >>> [2]: > >>> > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20150721#MacOSXElCapitansupport > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ghc-devs mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ >
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