Re: I can't build HEAD

Upgrade your bootstrap compiler to >= 9.4. We have now bumped HEAD's version to 9.8, which means that 9.4 is the earliest possible bootstrap compiler (which `text` now takes advantage of, as you see here). I have

Aha. I'll do that. You have to admit, the error message is not helpful :-). A suggestion for the future: when bumping the minimum bootstrap compiler, it would be possible (in the same commit) to fix configure to complain about too-early versions? Anyway I'm now building with 9.6, and doubtless that will be fine. Thanks. Simon On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 18:49, Ben Gamari wrote:

Simon Peyton Jones writes:

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in a clean HEAD build, including "git submodule update", I get this.

Can anyone help?

Upgrade your bootstrap compiler to >= 9.4. We have now bumped HEAD's version to 9.8, which means that 9.4 is the earliest possible bootstrap compiler (which `text` now takes advantage of, as you see here). I have a patch bumping the `configure` check stewing in my 9.8 preparation branch.

Cheers,

- Ben