[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1
Hello everyone, The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/ This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release candidates leading up the final 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number bugs found in 8.0.1 including, * Interface file build determinism (#4012). * Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile position-independent executables by default * Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797) * A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while compiling some packages (see #12076) * Compatability with systems which use the gold linker * A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system * A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads. * A typechecker bug which caused some programs using -XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted. * More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete listing. Unfortunately there is one known bug (#12757) which can result in runtime crashes which is still lurking in -rc1. This will be fixed in -rc2, which will be released in about a week. As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far! Happy testing, - Ben [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.0.2&col=id&...
Thanks Ben, this is great! Installing the binary on the Mac results in the following minor problem: /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 "/usr/local/share/man/man1" install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71 make: *** [install] Error 2 The error message is a bit confusing as the file does exist. It is easily resolved by rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1 I believe I encountered the same problem on ghc 8.0.1 rc1 Thanks George On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:39 PM Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at
http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/
This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release candidates leading up the final 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number bugs found in 8.0.1 including,
* Interface file build determinism (#4012).
* Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile position-independent executables by default
* Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)
* A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while compiling some packages (see #12076)
* Compatability with systems which use the gold linker
* A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system
* A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads.
* A typechecker bug which caused some programs using -XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.
* More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete listing.
Unfortunately there is one known bug (#12757) which can result in runtime crashes which is still lurking in -rc1. This will be fixed in -rc2, which will be released in about a week.
As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!
Happy testing,
- Ben
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George Colpitts <george.colpitts@gmail.com> writes:
Thanks Ben, this is great!
Installing the binary on the Mac results in the following minor problem:
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 "/usr/local/share/man/man1" install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71 make: *** [install] Error 2
Thanks for the report, George! That is quite odd indeed. It sounds like /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1 may have been a symlink to a directory which does not exist (possibly?). What does `ls -l /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1` say now? Cheers, - Ben
I think I am very atypical as I had the Haskell Platform installed and did an uninstall-hs before installing this release candidate. This is on the latest Mac OS and Xcode. At the time I got the error the file was a symbolic link, I believe to an existing file: install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71 make: *** [install] Error 2 bash-3.2$ ls -l /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 gcolpitts admin 80 Jun 23 19:44 /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1 -> /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/8.0.1-x86_64/usr/share/man/man1/ghc.1 bash-3.2$ rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1 Now after a successful install of the binary and a successful compile from source I have: ls -l /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 58932 Nov 26 09:16 /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1 bash-3.2$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/8.0.1-x86_64/usr/share/man/man1/ghc.1 ls -l /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/8.0.1-x86_64/usr/share/man/man1/ghc.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 58214 May 21 2016 /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/8.0.1-x86_64/usr/share/man/man1/ghc.1 After the binary install I did a cabal install of threadscope, hlint and criterion and some minimal runtime testing. Everything looks fine. Thanks George On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:
George Colpitts <george.colpitts@gmail.com> writes:
Thanks Ben, this is great!
Installing the binary on the Mac results in the following minor problem:
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 "/usr/local/share/man/man1" install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71 make: *** [install] Error 2
Thanks for the report, George! That is quite odd indeed. It sounds like /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1 may have been a symlink to a directory which does not exist (possibly?). What does `ls -l /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1` say now?
Cheers,
- Ben
On 26 November 2016 at 07:38, Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:
Thank you, I built it for Fedora 25 (just released last week) and Rawhide: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.0.2 Hopefully there will be a build for F24 soon too. Jens
Jens Petersen <juhpetersen@gmail.com> writes:
On 26 November 2016 at 07:38, Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:
Thank you, I built it for Fedora 25 (just released last week) and Rawhide:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.0.2
Hopefully there will be a build for F24 soon too.
Thanks Jens! Cheers, - Ben
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