My reason for sticking with 8.6.5 is that I don't yet trust GHCJS with later GHC versions. Thanks everyone for the pointers and suggestions. I'll look further into this when I have more time. (Alas, it's not my full-time job, so that's probably not until the weekend.)
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 5:11 AM Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Is there a reason you want to stick with 8.6.5? > > > > One way to find what you want is to use git-bisect to find the commit that > made the change. I think various people have automated setups for this. > > > > Simon > > > > *From:* ghc-devs <ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org> *On Behalf Of *Chris Smith > *Sent:* 14 June 2020 14:43 > *To:* ghc-devs@haskell.org > *Subject:* Looking for a recent error reporting change > > > > Hi. In GHC 8.6.5, if I compile a main module that both fails to define > `main` and also contains other errors, the other errors are not reported > because GHC aborts after realizing that there is no `main`. In GHC 8.10.1, > all errors are reported. I'm looking for where this change was made, in > the hopes that it's easy to backport to a local branch of GHC 8.6.5. Does > anyone know off-hand? >
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