ghcformacosx/ghc-dot-app

7.8.4 package breaks on OS X El Capitan

lukehoersten opened this issue · 7 comments

See haskell/cabal#2653

Basically cabal-install needs to be built against the latest unix package.

Is there a suitable binary available? It's an easy fix if there is, the build process for ghc-dot-app uses a precompiled binary.

I'll get back to you on that.

I haven't moved to 7.10.1 yet because my applications perform 4x slower in benchmarks.

@etrepum need you to chime in on the latest comments on the linked issue. The nuances of the discussion are beyond what I have experience with. Perhaps you can give some guidance on what exactly is needed to make the 7.8.4 ghcformacosx package work on OS X 10.11.

I just need a binary of cabal-install to ship with it

If it's the cabal package in GHC that's the problem then we need a new GHC build that fixes it.

Sounds like the GHC team decided not to do a release for this. Perhaps you can work with them to try and track down why your benchmarks got worse? Surely they'd be interested in fixing that.

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20150721

Sounds good. The workaround is compiling your own unix package so it's not
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