Re: Cabal etc

2012-11-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:13:23AM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > Maybe the thing to do is > (c) switch it off until the proposed-for-release solution > is implemented. If that is #7439, then let's do that next! Yup, I've disabled it unconditionally for now, and will work on #7439

RE: Cabal etc

2012-11-23 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| > This seems pretty urgent to me. | | Well, we certainly need to get it sorted out before releasing GHC 7.8. | And actually, it would be better if we could do so before 7.6.2, and | ship a Cabal that supports dynamic-by-default with 7.6.2. That way a | cabal-install built with 7.6.2 will support

Re: Cabal etc

2012-11-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi Simon, On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 01:16:46PM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > (He remarked that the new Cabal installs both static and dynamic by default; > should that be dynamic only? Do others have opinions? There are a few questions that we need to make a decision on. I'll be sending

Re: Cabal etc

2012-11-22 Thread Johan Tibell
On Thursday, November 22, 2012, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > (He remarked that the new Cabal installs both static and dynamic by > default; should that be dynamic only? Do others have opinions? > > This seems pretty urgent to me. This seems pretty urgent to me as well. Is there some write-up ab

Cabal etc

2012-11-22 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Ian As you know, the change to dyamic-by-default has broken cabal install. Here's my recent attempt: $ cabal install thrist-0.3 --with-ghc=/home/simonpj/5builds/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 $ ~/5builds/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1 -c T7438.hs T7438.hs:5:1: Failed to load interface for `Data.