Re: Call for features for GHC 8.4

2017-10-10 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Just as a general note, with the push towards regular releases at 6 month intervals whose final release doesn’t drag out 2-3 month after the expected release date, I think, having few items on the status page is a Good Thing. So, let’s not cram too much in, as Ben wrote, 8.6 will not be that

RE: More windows

2017-10-10 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Any ideas anyone? When I restart the build, it gets past the blockage (which seems highly specific). But it’s jolly annoying. Simon From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs Sent: 04 October 2017 17:25 To: Phyx ;

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

2017-10-10 Thread Thomas Jakway
Thanks for getting back to me. (I think you mean `git clean -x -f -d`): I usually omit -x but I'll give it a go and report back. Before I got the issue on a clean checkout I thought it was something I did to the build files. I also tried building the latest release of libffi (v3.2.1) and

Re: Call for features for GHC 8.4

2017-10-10 Thread Moritz Angermann
I’ll try to update the page when I’m back from VN. 8.4 - aarch64/arm linker for mach-o/elf - staticlib - iserv over the network - extended Q monad? (I really think we should try to iron this out for 8.4) - various iOS/Android/Raspberry Pi/... cross compilation fixes - llvm5 8.6 - llvmng? I’m