Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-14 Thread Austin Seipp
Evan, I've finished making a binary distribution and a .pkg installer for OS X (partly delayed due to terrible internet at the moment.) The binary distribution and GHC package, as well as md5 sums, can be found here: http://code.haskell.org/~thoughtpolice/ghc-741-osx-sl/ If anybody else would l

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-12 Thread Evan Laforge
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Evan Laforge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Austin Seipp wrote: >> Sorry, I got caught up doing a few other things the past few days. >> >> I'll make a binary of the 7.4.1 release later today and upload it to >> my code.haskell.org account and report b

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-12 Thread Evan Laforge
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Austin Seipp wrote: > Sorry, I got caught up doing a few other things the past few days. > > I'll make a binary of the 7.4.1 release later today and upload it to > my code.haskell.org account and report back here (the uploading will > take as long as the build, du

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-10 Thread Austin Seipp
Sorry, I got caught up doing a few other things the past few days. I'll make a binary of the 7.4.1 release later today and upload it to my code.haskell.org account and report back here (the uploading will take as long as the build, due to bad internet right now...) On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:56 P

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-10 Thread Evan Laforge
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Austin Seipp wrote: > I've done so, and have an RC2 bindist that doesn't have a segfaulting > GHCi. I suppose this build should be advocated to Snow Leopard users. > > I currently need a place to put the bindist. I'm about to send an > email to community.haskell.or

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-05 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 04:41 +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote: > That may have been the idea, but doesn't make a difference. GHC allows a > shebang line as the first line of a file also in .hs files. ...except when enabling the CPP language extension, then you get a shebang.hs:1:0: error: invalid pre

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-04 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Wednesday 01 February 2012, 19:08:16, Evan Laforge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Simon Hengel wrote: > > Are you referring to the classical pattern, that allows you to add a > > shebang? > > > >#!/usr/bin/env runhaskell > > > >> import Distribution.Simple > >> main = de

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-01 Thread Simon Hengel
> I just type runghc on everything and it seems like a lot of those > don't have the executable bit set, so I hadn't thought of that reason. I think this is most eminent with Darcs repos. Darcs can't revision file permissions (--set-scripts-executable tries to remedy that). Cheers, Simon __

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-01 Thread Evan Laforge
>> I downloaded the latest cabal-install from >> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install and that was a >> mistake right off. > > Assuming you upgraded, you probably had an old version of > cabal-install. You should be able to keep using it for the time being. > The cabal binary picks up t

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-01 Thread Simon Hengel
> And while I'm wondering about cabal, why on earth is it that so many > Setup.hs files are actually Setup.lhs and with no actual literate > contents? Are you referring to the classical pattern, that allows you to add a shebang? #!/usr/bin/env runhaskell > import Distribution.Simple

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-01 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell- | users-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Rene de Visser | Sent: 30 January 2012 19:15 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2 | | What are the plans for http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5623 which

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-01 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:00:05AM +0100, Andres Löh wrote: > > I wasn't actually aware that cabal-install is included in the ghc tree > and can be pulled via sync-all. It's only in the GHC tree because it lives in the same darcs repository as Cabal (the library) now. The code in the GHC tree is

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-01 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
ular fix won't be in 7.4. Sorry. Simon | -Original Message- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell- | users-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Austin Seipp | Sent: 29 January 2012 02:27 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: ANNOU

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-02-01 Thread Andres Löh
Hi there. First of all: I'm aware that the current situation with cabal-install is suboptimal and a new release it desperately needed. Still, some general advice and attempts at explaining strange behaviour: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Evan Laforge wrote: > So it embarrasses me to admit it,

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-31 Thread Evan Laforge
So it embarrasses me to admit it, but I'm having the same problem I always have when I install a new ghc, and that's cabal and cabal install. I downloaded the latest cabal-install from http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install and that was a mistake right off. After fiddling around I figur

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi Rene, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 08:15:05PM +0100, Rene de Visser wrote: > What are the plans for http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5623 which > seems to be still open? We don't plan to fix it for 7.4.1. Assuming we do a 7.4.2, if we have a fix for it then it could go in 7.4.2. Thank

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-30 Thread Rene de Visser
What are the plans for http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5623 which seems to be still open? Quoting form the ticket ... Just to spam a little more, it seems that the HEAD happily duplicates all computations on unboxed types. It even duplicates x+x in this example: foo :: Float -> Float

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-30 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, 7.4.1 RC2 shows the same issue like recent HEAD on ARM/Linux platform: a lot of (I don't know if not all) threaded1 testcases fail with: Stdout: Stderr: GEq1: internal error: ASSERTION FAILED: file rts/Schedule.c, line 506 (GHC version 7.4.0.20120126 for arm_unknown_linux) Pl

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-29 Thread Austin Seipp
I've done so, and have an RC2 bindist that doesn't have a segfaulting GHCi. I suppose this build should be advocated to Snow Leopard users. I currently need a place to put the bindist. I'm about to send an email to community.haskell.org to get my code.haskell.org SSH keys updated, and I'll then be

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 05:09:20PM -0600, Austin Seipp wrote: > > I run XCode 4 (and haven't had the opportunity to upgrade.) Would it > be reasonable to make a binary distribution for people like Evan and > Me and hopefully have it put on the download page? If someone makes a bindist and/or inst

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Austin Seipp
Hello again Ian, I noticed that in December, Bas van Dijk reported a bug in the implementation of ConstraintKinds/associated type defaults, and the fix wasn't merged to 7.4.1. The relevant email thread is archived here: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2011-December/021318.

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread wren ng thornton
On 1/28/12 6:09 PM, Austin Seipp wrote: I presume the people in our boat are actually pretty small in number (OS X users are fairly keen to upgrade pretty quickly,) but it would be nice to not have to build it ourselves if that's the case. On the whole, we are. But there are some in worse posit

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Austin Seipp
Ian, Thanks for pointing this out. I run XCode 4 (and haven't had the opportunity to upgrade.) Would it be reasonable to make a binary distribution for people like Evan and Me and hopefully have it put on the download page? I presume the people in our boat are actually pretty small in number (OS

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:32:31PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:15:46PM +, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > > > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.4.1: > > > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.4.1-rc2/ > > > > The first candidate or

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Jan 28, 2012 11:14 AM, "Sanket Agrawal" wrote: > Yes, that is another possibility. I would like to keep it simple, and just upgrade to XCode 4.2, instead of installing Clang+LLVM binaries separately, if it is not an issue for GHC. Xcode 4.2 doesn't include full LLVM either; moreover, what it d

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:15:46PM +, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.4.1: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.4.1-rc2/ > The first candidate or the second? (for the date is Jan 27). Is ghc-7.4.0.20111219 the first candidate?

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 09:52:13AM -0500, Sanket Agrawal wrote: > I installed it on my mac (OS X 10.7.2, XCode 4.1) without any issues (using > bindist, not pkg). Is upgrading to XCode 4.2 ok from GHC perspective There is a problem with the LLVM gcc and GHC: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Sanket Agrawal
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Johan Tibell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Sanket Agrawal > wrote: > > The reason I am asking is I want to try LLVM backend but GHC keeps > > complaining about missing llvm tools (opt, llc). I checked LLVM webpage > but > > couldn't find information a

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Sanket Agrawal wrote: > The reason I am asking is I want to try LLVM backend but GHC keeps > complaining about missing llvm tools (opt, llc). I checked LLVM webpage but > couldn't find information about how to determine what llvm tools are > installed on my Mac. My

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Sanket Agrawal
I installed it on my mac (OS X 10.7.2, XCode 4.1) without any issues (using bindist, not pkg). Is upgrading to XCode 4.2 ok from GHC perspective (more specifically, runtime performance of code compiled by GHC)? I have seen some discussion of Clang causing issues for GHC, but it was about compiling

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:10:26PM -0600, Austin Seipp wrote: > > Ian, can I ask what the procedure would be to check out the 7.4 branch > of GHC and all the associated libraries to try this out? I'm not > familiar with all the `sync-all`-fu, but I speculate it's what'll do > it. :) See http

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:57:35PM -0800, Evan Laforge wrote: > Unfortunately ghci still segfaults for me most times (the previous > release candidate did too). Anyone else seeing this? What should I > do to troubleshoot? > > OS X 10.6.8, using GHC-7.4.0.20120126-x86_64.pkg Ah, sorry, I should

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-27 Thread Austin Seipp
I too was seeing this with RC1, but I haven't tried RC2. Looking at the commits on the 7.4 branch, I don't see anything that would have likely affected/fixed it, so I speculate I'll see the same thing with RC2. I'll try tonight and report back. I will note that manually built copies of HEAD work j

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-27 Thread Evan Laforge
Unfortunately ghci still segfaults for me most times (the previous release candidate did too). Anyone else seeing this? What should I do to troubleshoot? OS X 10.6.8, using GHC-7.4.0.20120126-x86_64.pkg I'll try GHC-7.4.0.20120126-i386.pkg in a bit, but I probably do need the 64 bit version, pr

ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.4.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.4.1-rc2/ This includes the source tarball, installers for OS X and Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/FreeBSD and i386/FreeBSD. Please test as much as possible; bugs