"ghc-options: -O0" causes upload error; blocks xmonad-contrib release

[sjanssen]

When attempting to upload  xmonad-contrib-0.8.1 to Hackage:

400 Error in upload
'ghc-options: -O0' is not needed. Use the --disable-optimization configure flag.

xmonad-contrib.cabal has the following:

    if impl (ghc >= 6.10.1) && arch (x86_64)
        ghc-options:    -O0

This is a workaround for GHC bug  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2961 . If we do not disable optimizations on x86_64 and GHC 6.10.1, our users experience lockups and crashes. This is rather critical for us, as we are now unable to release a stable version of xmonad.

This error should be changed to a strong warning -- sometimes the package author really does know better than the package manager.

[duncan]

Done in the Cabal lib. Hackage will need updating.

[ross]

updated

[sjanssen]

The online 'check-pkg' feature now accepts -O0, but upload-pkg still fails with the same error.

[ross]

sorry, must have been a rebuild error

[elga]

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