Re: Building the docs, again

2017-10-31 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, never mind, I figured it out---apparently the build targets were disabled for the `quick` flavor, which I was using. It is quite confusing that we can be setting the same variable to different values in different places. It would also be quite helpful if we modified the Makefile to say

Building the docs, again

2017-10-31 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, sometime ago, I asked if it is possible to build just the GHC docs, without building the compiler. I was told to just run `make html`. This does not appear to work, the command seems to just start building GHC. What am I doing wrong? Here is the output I see, running the command from

Re: GHCi recompilation avoidance UI

2017-10-31 Thread Evan Laforge
I updated the trac ticket, but here's a copy-paste: I still don't feel like 1 is necessary, I'd rather flags cause other flags to be ignored with a warning, rather than turn on other flags. But that's just a vague preference, with no strong evidence for it. Maybe it could emit a warning if you

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.2 release candidate 2

2017-10-31 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is very pleased to announce the second candidate of the 8.2.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.2-rc2/ This is the second and hopefully last of two release candidates