Hurgh. My fault. I was testing ben's new patch with a newer LLVM and got it working, but didn't test the case of not having it installed. :) Will try to fix shortly.

Was this just from running validate?

On Tuesday, February 10, 2015, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:

I’m getting this on Linux (Ubuntu).  How do I get a newer version of llvm? 

Simon

 

<no location info>:

    You are using an old version of LLVM that isn't supported anymore!

    We will try though...

/usr/bin/opt: /tmp/ghc451_0/ghc451_1.ll:7:6: error: expected type

!0 = !{!"top", i8* null}

     ^



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