At long last: 2014.2.0.0 Release Candidate 1

[Randy Polen]

(left out the very important "no" in "I have *no* expertise in using ghc in non-ASCII)
 
From: randy at kanonika.com
To: suhorng at gmail.com
CC: haskell-platform at projects.haskell.org; randyhaskell at outlook.com
Subject: RE: At long last: 2014.2.0.0 Release Candidate 1
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:55:01 -0700




suhorng,
 
I tried to reproduce this on x64 Win7 but was not able to (I realize this is not quite your situation).  However, the message seems to be about the conf file (or some step leading to its creation?) and I notice that the tf-random conf file which gets installed for me includes some non-ASCII characters in the a number of fields (author, maintainer, description), so perhaps this is relevant.  In the tf-random tarball that comes down from hackage, a number of files (tf-random.cabal, each of the source files) have non-ASCII chars also (e.g., in comments containing the author's name).  These are just my observations; I have expertise in the using ghc in non-ASCII, so this is probably only minimally useful to you.
 
Randy
 
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:48:15 +0800
Subject: Re: At long last: 2014.2.0.0 Release Candidate 1
From: suhorng at gmail.com
CC: haskell-platform at projects.haskell.org

Just installed the Windows i386 version. Everything seems working. The regextest and GLUT test both work. I've also successfully compiled Agda and Idris.
It's a little sad that GHC on Windows has some sort of locale problem. As an example,
if I manually install (compile!) cabal-install (1.20, say), then I wouldn't be able to installtf-random. The registration process fails with
    Failed to install tf-random-0.5
    cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:    tf-random-0.5 failed during the final install step. The exception was:    C:\Users\suhorng\AppData\Local\Temp\pkgConf-tf-random-02992.5: hGetContents:
    invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)
Anyway, that is not HP's problem. It's awesome to see 2014.2 coming!
suhorng



2014-07-25 22:56 GMT+08:00 Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com>:


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:09 AM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:




Installed on the Mac, looks good, not sure if following is significant:
Looks like you have "old stuff" in ~/.ghc [George sent me his ghc-pkg dump.]  That is, things compiled with a prior repease of 7.8.3:




Warning: library-dirs: /opt/local/lib/ doesn't exist or isn't a directory




Warning: include-dirs: /opt/local/include/ doesn't exist or isn't a directory
These are due to the package hmatrix. It looks like it is expecting to find the C libraries blas and lapack installed in /opt/local.  Is this something you built a while ago and removed?




Warning: haddock-interfaces: /Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.8.3/lib/Cabal-1.20.0.1/doc/html/Cabal.haddock doesn't exist or isn't a file



 This is more upsetting, since you compiled Cabal-1.20.0.1 with the newly installed HP. I can reproduce this problem... and oddly, it only happens with Cabal! The docs are built, but not installed.... haven't figured this one out yet.  It did uncover another bug in that the "master haddock" in the User area ends up at the wrong place.




- Mark


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