Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

2014-03-04 Thread José Pedro Magalhães
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

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

2014-03-04 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hello, On 4 March 2014 09:17, 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.) No, looks like a GHC issue. ___ ghc-devs mailing list

git.haskell.org misbehaving?

2014-03-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
I'm getting fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer when I try git pull from git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git Works ok if I try http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git This happens from both Windows and Linux. Anyone know what is going on? Simon

RE: git.haskell.org misbehaving?

2014-03-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Thank you! | -Original Message- | From: Herbert Valerio Riedel [mailto:hvrie...@gmail.com] | Sent: 04 March 2014 12:29 | To: Simon Peyton Jones | Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org; Austin Seipp | Subject: Re: git.haskell.org misbehaving? | | On 2014-03-04 at 12:57:11 +0100, Simon Peyton Jones

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

2014-03-04 Thread Mark Lentczner
It looks like the Mac builds are specific to the version of Mac OS X they were compiled on. This is very unfortunate, as now we'll have to produce at least four variants of HP for each. The only thing holding back a build on either Maverricks or Mountain Lion (10.9 and 10.8) from working on 10.7

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

2014-03-04 Thread Carter Schonwald
@mark, theres no runtime detection logic patch, theres just a config time hack currently. I've a work in progress partial patch to expose the CPP program choice + flags into the ghc settings file, https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8683 , but lifes got me a bit overloaded these past few

Cabal-1.18.1.3 and cabal-install-1.18.0.3 releases made

2014-03-04 Thread Johan Tibell
Hi, I've just made a release of Cabal/cabal-install, for the benefit of GHC 7.8. People have in the past expressed a desire for having prebuilt binaries of cabal-install. I'm happy to upload such binaries if people send them to me. Please specify for which arch/OS the binary is built. -- Johan

GHC 7.8 RC2: ARM cross compiler (LLVM Error)

2014-03-04 Thread Luke Clifton
Hi, I successfully compiled a native GHC 7.8 RC2 from the source distribution. I now want to create an GHC cross compiler targeting ARM. So I do a ./configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --with-gcc=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (I don't know why I have to explicitly supply the GCC, documentation seems