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 version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library

cabal install --nats -v3 gives this output, and brings up a standard windows application crash window before the

"returned ExitFailure (-1073741819)" line with the following information:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ghc.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 5312f1e1
Fault Module Name: ghc.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 5312f1e1
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 01adb323
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 1548
Additional Information 2: 1548a4345bd8ec1f0510cd3884fa5889
Additional Information 3: daab
Additional Information 4: daabc1a5d9d41fd73825c2e9d33e1385

I have later updated cabal-install (to version 1.18.0.2 using version 1.18.1.2 of the Cabal library), but that

didn't change this problem. The same happened with RC1, btw.

Thanks,

Pedro

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> wrote:

We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.8.1:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc2/html/

This includes the source tarball and binary distributions for Windows,
Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64, and more. There
are now two binary builds for Linux users: one for glibc 2.12 and GMP
4, primarily intended for RHEL users, and one built for glibc 2.13 and
GMP 5 - intended for Debian and more recent machines.

In addition, there is also an iOS cross compiler build (both in the
native ARM configuration and i386 simulator configurations), separate
Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 builds - the latter supporting dynamic
linking - and a new Linux/PPC64 build using glibc 2.18/GMP 5. There is
a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes available (attached) using my GPG
key (keyid 0x3B58D86F).

We're also now offering .tar.xz files, which roughly cut the size of
the binary distributions in half compared to bzip2.

We've closed approximately 45 tickets that people filed for RC1 in
this release. Thank you for all the reports!

We plan to make the final 7.8.1 release soon, and hope RC2 will be the
last RC. So *please* test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper
if we find them before the release!

--
Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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