On 02/ 5/14 03:09 PM, Arie Peterson wrote:
On Monday 03 February 2014 16:35:14 Austin Seipp wrote:
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: […] This includes the source tarball and bindists for Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64. […]
Has anyone by chance built it for arm, yet? If I understand correctly, with this new version, it should be possible to compile programs with a dependency on vector, on arm.
Tried, on my ubuntu 12.04.02, but it fails miserably. Modern GHC requires alex 3.1 and cabal alex fails with (due to QuickCheck template haskell dependency): $ cabal install alex Resolving dependencies... Downloading random-1.0.1.1... Configuring random-1.0.1.1... Building random-1.0.1.1... Preprocessing library random-1.0.1.1... [1 of 1] Compiling System.Random ( System/Random.hs, dist/build/System/Random.o ) Registering random-1.0.1.1... Installing library in /home/karel/.cabal/lib/random-1.0.1.1/ghc-7.4.1 Registering random-1.0.1.1... Downloading QuickCheck-2.6... Configuring QuickCheck-2.6... Building QuickCheck-2.6... Preprocessing library QuickCheck-2.6... [ 1 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Exception ( Test/QuickCheck/Exception.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Exception.o ) [ 2 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Text ( Test/QuickCheck/Text.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Text.o ) [ 3 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.State ( Test/QuickCheck/State.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/State.o ) [ 4 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Gen ( Test/QuickCheck/Gen.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Gen.o ) [ 5 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Arbitrary ( Test/QuickCheck/Arbitrary.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Arbitrary.o ) [ 6 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Poly ( Test/QuickCheck/Poly.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Poly.o ) [ 7 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Modifiers ( Test/QuickCheck/Modifiers.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Modifiers.o ) [ 8 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Function ( Test/QuickCheck/Function.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Function.o ) [ 9 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Property ( Test/QuickCheck/Property.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Property.o ) [10 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Test ( Test/QuickCheck/Test.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Test.o ) [11 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Monadic ( Test/QuickCheck/Monadic.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Monadic.o ) [12 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck ( Test/QuickCheck.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck.o ) [13 of 13] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.All ( Test/QuickCheck/All.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/All.o ) Test/QuickCheck/All.hs:28:20: Template Haskell bracket illegal in a stage-1 compiler [| quickCheck ($(mono x)) |] [...] Test/QuickCheck/All.hs:111:22: Template Haskell splice illegal in a stage-1 compiler forAllProperties cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: QuickCheck-2.6 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 alex-3.1.3 depends on QuickCheck-2.6 which failed to install. So, well, Catch-22? Karel