Re: Call for features for GHC 8.4

Evan Laforge writes: > I'd like to see this fixed: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13604 > > It's a show stopper that prevented me from being able to use 8.2 at all. David, could you see to it that something happens on this front? Cheers, - Ben signature.asc

Re: Call for features for GHC 8.4

I'd like to see this fixed: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13604 It's a show stopper that prevented me from being able to use 8.2 at all. Once again, if no one has time to address it, I'd be happy to take a look myself. On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Ben Gamari

Call for features for GHC 8.4

Hello everyone, The release of GHC 8.4 is quickly approaching, with a release targetted for February 2018. To allow plenty of time for stabilization, we would like to cut the ghc-8.4 branch sometime in November. Currently there are relatively few items on the 8.4 status page [1]. If you have a

Re: GHC HEAD now needs extra tools to build libffi?

Yes, this commit indeed introduced the need for makeinfo, however after some debugging and improved packaging of the external libffi library, this dependency was removed again, and should not be required with the latest head anymore. Then again this should not result in link issues but rather