On 05/17/16 03:02 PM, Andrés Sicard-Ramírez wrote:

On 17 May 2016 at 07:38, Ben Gamari wrote:

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tl;dr: We are giving this release another attempt. Cross your fingers and try building again.

Hello GHC packagers,

Thanks for your help in the last few days working through what were hopefully the last issues in the release. I've uploaded a new set of source tarballs at,

http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/

I got the following error (on Linux):

$ make /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSghc-boot-th-8.0.1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pkg] Error 1

That's exactly the issue which should be fixed in this round. Ben cited this as an issue affecting Solaris and FreeBSD and you are lucky to be able to duplicate this on Linux. Anyway, please verify that your -src.tar.xz does have following sha256 sum: b677e215cdfa22fba534b9bf7b530a056113c1f01002eae5b576e92ced9193ba I guess you are using older sources from previous round as website is notoriously known for excessive caching... Karel

2016-05-17 8:15 GMT-05:00 Ben Gamari :

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I got the following error (on Linux):

$ make /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSghc-boot-th-8.0.1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pkg] Error 1

Can you confirm that the sha1sum of the tarball you downloaded is,

$ sha1sum ghc-8.0.1-src.tar.xz a3ff4c7b54c440d5a6e25f534a9b3ea93c1ee029 ghc-8.0.1-src.tar.xz

Yes, I can confirm it: $ sha1sum ghc-8.0.1-src.tar.xz a3ff4c7b54c440d5a6e25f534a9b3ea93c1ee029 ghc-8.0.1-src.tar.xz -- Andrés "La información contenida en este correo electrónico está dirigida únicamente a su destinatario y puede contener información confidencial, material privilegiado o información protegida por derecho de autor. Está prohibida cualquier copia, utilización, indebida retención, modificación, difusión, distribución o reproducción total o parcial. Si usted recibe este mensaje por error, por favor contacte al remitente y elimínelo. La información aquí contenida es responsabilidad exclusiva de su remitente por lo tanto la Universidad EAFIT no se hace responsable de lo que el mensaje contenga." "The information contained in this email is addressed to its recipient only and may contain confidential information, privileged material or information protected by copyright. Its prohibited any copy, use, improper retention, modification, dissemination, distribution or total or partial reproduction. If you receive this message by error, please contact the sender and delete it. The information contained herein is the sole responsibility of the sender therefore Universidad EAFIT is not responsible for what the message contains."

2016-05-17 8:21 GMT-05:00 Ben Gamari :

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I got the following error (on Linux):

$ make /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSghc-boot-th-8.0.1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pkg] Error 1

Very interesting. This must be quite a intermittent issue since I have not once been able to reproduce it and Karel claimed the patch I merged fixed it. Yet, Herbert noticed that the patch is actually subtly wrong.

Does the attached patch fix the issue?

No, the patch didn't fix the issue. -- Andrés "La información contenida en este correo electrónico está dirigida únicamente a su destinatario y puede contener información confidencial, material privilegiado o información protegida por derecho de autor. Está prohibida cualquier copia, utilización, indebida retención, modificación, difusión, distribución o reproducción total o parcial. Si usted recibe este mensaje por error, por favor contacte al remitente y elimínelo. La información aquí contenida es responsabilidad exclusiva de su remitente por lo tanto la Universidad EAFIT no se hace responsable de lo que el mensaje contenga." "The information contained in this email is addressed to its recipient only and may contain confidential information, privileged material or information protected by copyright. Its prohibited any copy, use, improper retention, modification, dissemination, distribution or total or partial reproduction. If you receive this message by error, please contact the sender and delete it. The information contained herein is the sole responsibility of the sender therefore Universidad EAFIT is not responsible for what the message contains."

Andrés Sicard-Ramírez writes:

2016-05-17 8:21 GMT-05:00 Ben Gamari :

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I got the following error (on Linux):

$ make /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSghc-boot-th-8.0.1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pkg] Error 1

Very interesting. This must be quite a intermittent issue since I have not once been able to reproduce it and Karel claimed the patch I merged fixed it. Yet, Herbert noticed that the patch is actually subtly wrong.

Does the attached patch fix the issue?

No, the patch didn't fix the issue.

Alright, thanks for the update. We're looking into the issue. Cheers, - Ben

On 17 May 2016 at 11:54, Ben Gamari wrote:

So after many attempts I was able to reproduce the issue seen by Andrés and Karel and believe I have merged a fix.

Let me know how your builds go

I couldn't reproduce the issue using the latest source tarballs. Thanks! -- Andrés "La información contenida en este correo electrónico está dirigida únicamente a su destinatario y puede contener información confidencial, material privilegiado o información protegida por derecho de autor. Está prohibida cualquier copia, utilización, indebida retención, modificación, difusión, distribución o reproducción total o parcial. Si usted recibe este mensaje por error, por favor contacte al remitente y elimínelo. La información aquí contenida es responsabilidad exclusiva de su remitente por lo tanto la Universidad EAFIT no se hace responsable de lo que el mensaje contenga." "The information contained in this email is addressed to its recipient only and may contain confidential information, privileged material or information protected by copyright. Its prohibited any copy, use, improper retention, modification, dissemination, distribution or total or partial reproduction. If you receive this message by error, please contact the sender and delete it. The information contained herein is the sole responsibility of the sender therefore Universidad EAFIT is not responsible for what the message contains."