Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

Jens Petersen writes: > On 26 November 2016 at 07:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > >> http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/ >> > > Thank you, I built it for Fedora 25 (just released last week) and Rawhide: > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

On 26 November 2016 at 07:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/ > Thank you, I built it for Fedora 25 (just released last week) and Rawhide: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.0.2 Hopefully there will be a build for

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

On 28 November 2016 at 16:37, Jens Petersen wrote: > I think it is not being generated. > Well it might be generated, but it is not getting installed properly by default anyway. Looks like a buildsystem regression to me wrt to 8.0.1: I guess we should > file a bug... >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

On 26 November 2016 at 22:46, Ben Gamari wrote: > > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 > > "/usr/local/share/man/man1" > > install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory > > make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71 > > make: ***

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

Thanks Ben! When testing, I found that a type checker regression from 7.10 to 8.0 that I thought/hoped was resolved is in fact still present in this release candidate. I filed a new bug: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12885 It originally seemed the same as #12175. But unfortunately,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > However, what's changed from 8.0.1 to 8.0.2 to trigger this? I mean, > is a point release supposed to do this? I would expect 8.0 to 8.1 to > break, but find it surprising x.0.1 to x.0.2 would as well. >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

On 27 November 2016 at 01:37, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > On 25 November 2016 at 23:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > > > > As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone > > who has contributed so far! > > No trouble building and running rc1, but

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

On 25 November 2016 at 23:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > > As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone > who has contributed so far! No trouble building and running rc1, but some code in xmonad-contrib that builds fine with 8.0.1 doesn't with 8.0.2-rc1. Not

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

I think I am very atypical as I had the Haskell Platform installed and did an uninstall-hs before installing this release candidate. This is on the latest Mac OS and Xcode. At the time I got the error the file was a symbolic link, I believe to an existing file: install:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

George Colpitts writes: > Thanks Ben, this is great! > > Installing the binary on the Mac results in the following minor problem: > > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 > "/usr/local/share/man/man1" > install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

Thanks Ben, this is great! Installing the binary on the Mac results in the following minor problem: /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 "/usr/local/share/man/man1" install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

Hello everyone, The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/ This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release