Hi George,

From a glance the issue seems to be with building GHC in Tahoe, not necessarily 
with using a GHC binary.
I haven’t tested GHC on Tahoe yet, so no promises.

However, I am just now upgrading the OS so I will be in a position to start 
fixing issues that come up.
I’ll also tackle #26166 in the near future to make GHC build again there.

Cheers,
Rodrigo

> On 15 Sep 2025, at 20:02, George Colpitts <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Tahoe , the new MacOS, is out today. Should GHC users not upgrade to it? I am 
> concerned about https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/26166
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM Ben Gamari <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the
>> second alpha prerelease of GHC 9.14.1. Binary distributions, source
>> distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org 
>> <http://downloads.haskell.org/>].
>> 
>> GHC 9.14 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including:
>> 
>> * Significant improvements in specialisation:
>> 
>>    * The `SPECIALISE` pragma now allows use of type application syntax
>> 
>>    * The `SPECIALISE` pragma can be used to specialise for expression 
>> arguments
>>      as well as type arguments.
>> 
>>    * Specialisation is now considerably more reliable in the presence of
>>      `newtype`s
>> 
>> * Significant improvements in the GHCi debugger
>> 
>> * Record fields can be defined to be non-linear when `LinearTypes` is 
>> enabled.
>> 
>> * `RequiredTypeArgments` can now be used in more contexts
>> 
>> * SSE/AVX2 support in the x86 native code generator backend
>> 
>> * A major update of the Windows toolchain
>> 
>> * ... and many more
>> 
>> A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes]. Given the
>> many specialisation improvements and their potential for regression, we would
>> very much appreciate testing and performance characterisation on downstream
>> workloads.
>> 
>> Observant readers of these prerelease announcements will note that 
>> polymorphic
>> specialisation has been dropped from alpha 2. This measure was taken out of 
>> an
>> abundance of caution after finding a miscompilation during testing of alpha 
>> 1.
>> While this bug will be fixed in the next alpha, we expect to keep polymorphic
>> specialisation disabled by default in the final release. Users needing more
>> aggressive specialisation can explicitly enable this feature with the
>> `-fpolymorphic-specialisation` flag. Depending upon our experience with 
>> 9.14.1,
>> we may enable this feature by default in a later minor release.
>> 
>> This is the second of three expected alpha prereleases. We expect the next
>> (third) alpha will come 23 Sept. 2025, with the release candidate coming 7 
>> Oct.
>> 2025.
>> 
>> We would like to thank the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Mercury, Channable,
>> Tweag I/O, Serokell, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous
>> contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC
>> maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release 
>> would
>> not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose
>> work have made the Haskell ecosystem what it is today.
>> 
>> As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket] if you see
>> anything amiss.
>> 
>> 
>> [downloads.haskell.org <http://downloads.haskell.org/>]: 
>> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.14.1-alpha2
>> [release notes]: 
>> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.14.1-alpha2/docs/users_guide/9.14.1-notes.html
>> [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/homepage/-/issues/new
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