Should I file a bug report for this? If it's indeed a GHC bug, it's a blocker. Can anyone else confirm it?...
Thanks, Pedro On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:17 AM, José Pedro Magalhães <j...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > Hello, > > This GHC crashes whenever I try installing any package. (I guess this > might be due to cabal-install, though.) > > Details: > Using the RC2 at > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ghc-7.8.0.20140228-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz > OS: Win7 64bit > cabal-install version 0.14.0 > using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library > cabal install --nats -v3 gives this output <http://lpaste.net/100678>, > and brings up a standard windows application crash window before the > "returned ExitFailure (-1073741819)" line with the following information: > > Problem signature: >> Problem Event Name: APPCRASH >> Application Name: ghc.exe >> Application Version: 0.0.0.0 >> Application Timestamp: 5312f1e1 >> Fault Module Name: ghc.exe >> Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 >> Fault Module Timestamp: 5312f1e1 >> Exception Code: c0000005 >> Exception Offset: 01adb323 >> OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 >> Locale ID: 2057 >> Additional Information 1: 1548 >> Additional Information 2: 1548a4345bd8ec1f0510cd3884fa5889 >> Additional Information 3: daab >> Additional Information 4: daabc1a5d9d41fd73825c2e9d33e1385 > > > I have later updated cabal-install (to version 1.18.0.2 using version > 1.18.1.2 of the Cabal library), but that > didn't change this problem. The same happened with RC1, btw. > > Thanks, > Pedro > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com>wrote: > >> We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: >> >> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ >> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc2/html/ >> >> This includes the source tarball and binary distributions for Windows, >> Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64, and more. There >> are now two binary builds for Linux users: one for glibc 2.12 and GMP >> 4, primarily intended for RHEL users, and one built for glibc 2.13 and >> GMP 5 - intended for Debian and more recent machines. >> >> In addition, there is also an iOS cross compiler build (both in the >> native ARM configuration and i386 simulator configurations), separate >> Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 builds - the latter supporting dynamic >> linking - and a new Linux/PPC64 build using glibc 2.18/GMP 5. There is >> a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes available (attached) using my GPG >> key (keyid 0x3B58D86F). >> >> We're also now offering .tar.xz files, which roughly cut the size of >> the binary distributions in half compared to bzip2. >> >> We've closed approximately 45 tickets that people filed for RC1 in >> this release. Thank you for all the reports! >> >> We plan to make the final 7.8.1 release soon, and hope RC2 will be the >> last RC. So *please* test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper >> if we find them before the release! >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant >> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> > >
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