Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-03 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2014-02-03 at 23:35:14 +0100, Austin Seipp wrote: > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: [...] > Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them > before the release! Please note that GHC 7.8.1RC1 is also available for Travis-CI as part

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-03 Thread Ganesh Sittampalam
Just to note a problem I encountered on Windows, which may well be user error. I unpacked the mingw tarball and added the bin directory from it to my path. cabal install then failed with "cabal.exe: does not exist" after producing some other output. Running with -v3 suggested that the actual prob

Re: test build of current ghc-7.8

2014-02-03 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi Joachim, > Am Montag, den 03.02.2014, 19:49 +0900 schrieb Jens Petersen: > > Hi, I did a test build [1] of the current ghc-7.8 branch for Fedora 21 > > devel, which I think should also install to Fedora 20. > > I’m surprised that it worked for you. Did not you not hit > http://ghc.haskell.org/

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-03 Thread George Colpitts
wrt existing issues, is there a list of these so we can avoid reporting them? Thanks George On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Austin Seipp wrote: > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc1/ > http://www.haskell.o

ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

2014-02-03 Thread Austin Seipp
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc1/ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc1/html/ This includes the source tarball and bindists for Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64. There is a sign

Re: test build of current ghc-7.8

2014-02-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Jens, Am Montag, den 03.02.2014, 19:49 +0900 schrieb Jens Petersen: > Hi, I did a test build [1] of the current ghc-7.8 branch for Fedora 21 > devel, > which I think should also install to Fedora 20. I’m surprised that it worked for you. Did not you not hit http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/

test build of current ghc-7.8

2014-02-03 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi, I did a test build [1] of the current ghc-7.8 branch for Fedora 21 devel, which I think should also install to Fedora 20. I put the packages for x86_64, i386 and armv7hl into the yum repos under http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/petersen/ghc-7.7/ I haven't tested this latest build yet but w