#15068: Small number of test case failures on Ubuntu Bionic (GCC 7.3) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: jrp | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: merge Priority: highest | Milestone: 8.6.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 8.4.1 (CodeGen) | Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Linux | Architecture: x86_64 | (amd64) Type of failure: Incorrect result | Test Case: T13658 at runtime | T14779a T14779b T14868 debug | parsing001 Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Phab:D4654 Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by svenpanne): Replying to [comment:28 vanessamchale]:
Stack is by far the most popular way to install GHC
I don't think that's true.
See http://taylor.fausak.me/2017/11/15/2017-state-of-haskell-survey- results/#question-15, if you've got more plausible/recent numbers, I would be interested to see them.
stack is far more popular as a build tool than cabal
You can use the system GHC with stack, as mentioned above.
I think you totally miss the point here: Of course you could do that, but one of the main points of `stack`'s popularity is that you don't need to do that: All you need for a happy Haskell life is to install a single tool (stack), which pulls in other tools/compilers/packages as needed.
indicate that this problem is a show stopper for 8.4.2
This is not true.
In all companies I've worked so far, "crashing/not working on common platforms" ''is'' a definition of show stopper.
I worry more about the average/wannabe Haskell user
If for whatever reason they are constrained to using stack on Ubuntu
without using the system GHC, they can use the latest LTS snapshot. Telling people: "I've got buggy new SW, just use older one" is not really productive. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15068#comment:30 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler