Here is an updated release candidate for the MacOS X installer for
Intel/Leopard:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/GHC-6.8.2.20080604-i386.pkg
It includes readline support statically linked. Unless we receive any
bug reports, these are basically the bits you'll get for the 6.8.3
release. So, please test it thoroughly.
Manuel
PS: I am not very hopeful about having a 10.4 (Tiger) version of the
installer for 6.8.3. I am currently missing a method to identify the
symbols in an executable that lead to the "bus error" (invariably at
_calloc_initialize) that signals an attempt to execute a Leopard
binary on Tiger. If any Mac guru here knows how to identify these
symbols, let me know. (I know about DYLD_PRINT_BINDINGS and friends,
but that didn't help me so far.) Alternatively, grab <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/GHC-6.9.20080526-i386.dmg
> -my currently best effort at cross-compiling for 10.4- and tell me
why it won't run on Tiger.
Manuel M T Chakravarty:
A Mac installer version of the release candidate for Intel/Leopard
Macs is at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/GHC-6.8.2.20080529-i386.pkg
This version of GHC includes neither editline nor readline at the
moment (this will be fixed for the final release). It also only
works for Leopard (MacOS X 10.5) as I haven't managed to get cross
compiling for older OS versions fully functional yet.
In any case, please test this if you have an Intel/Leopard Mac and
are interested in a one-click installer with no dependencies other
than a recent version of Xcode.
The packages comes with an uninstall script located at
/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Tools/Uninstaller
It will overwrite other 6.8.x versions of GHC installed from an
installer package, but peacefully coexist with other distributions
of 6.8 and with GHC versions other than 6.8 independent of how they
were installed.
Manuel
We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.3.
Snapshots beginning with 6.8.2.20080527 are release candidates
for 6.8.3
You can download snapshots from here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/
Right now we have the source bundles:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src.tar.bz2
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package
contains
various extra packages that are often supplied with GHC - unpack the
extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they
will
be included in the build automatically.
There is also currently an installer for i386/Windows and binary
distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later.
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find
them
before the release!
We expect to release in a few days, assuming no major issues are
discovered.
Thanks
Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
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