Fabien R
On 20/12/17 21:48, Ben Gamari wrote:
The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the 8.4.1 release. The usual release artifacts are available from
Hi Fabien, Thanks for taking the time to test.
I tried to build the release from this script [1] which works straightfully for GHC 8.2.2 on debian jessie. 1) There's a minor glitch showing: GHC_VERSION = 8.4.1 but the version of the file in the download area is 8.4.0.20171214
This is expected; pre-releases always have version numbers strictly less than the final release they lead up to.
2) GHC and cabal library installed successfully whereas cabal-install failed with this error:
Linking Setup ... Configuring HTTP-4000.3.7... Setup: Encountered missing dependencies: base >=4.3.0.0 && <4.11
Error during cabal-install bootstrap: Configuring the HTTP package failed.
This is due to the upper bound on `base`. You will likely get farther if you invoke cabal with --allow-newer=base. In general you will likely want to use something like Herbert's head.hackage [1] patch-set if you want to build larger projects with this alpha. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://github.com/hvr/head.hackage