Cabal-1.18.1.3 and cabal-install-1.18.0.3, released a couple of days ago, have some GHC 7.8 specific fixes. I don't know if those will help your issue though.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:41 PM, José Pedro Magalhães <j...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Carter Schonwald < > carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ghc 7.8 supports only cabal 1.18 > > > "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." > > Or do you mean I need something even more recent than this? > > > Pedro > > >> Could you try using the boot strap script for getting new cabal install >> on your system? >> If not, Austin probably has a cabal-install binary lying around for his >> windows testing >> >> >> >> On Friday, March 7, 2014, José Pedro Magalhães <j...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: >> >>> 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/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> g >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >
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