Re: RC Status

I don't have access to a windows machine (at least not this week, may be able to rectify that in a week or two ), but if there's some turn the crank engineering that can be done anyways to help facilitate helping fix up the windows sitch, I'm happy to volunteer some time turning the crank. On Tuesday, January 14, 2014, Austin Seipp wrote:

Hi Kazu,

Yes, I'll test Christiaan's patch and try to get it in today.

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Kazu Yamamoto javascript:;> wrote:

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Hi,

For Mac, we should verify darchon's Cabal patch for dynamic linking in #8266. darchon's patch does not works well in my Mavericks.

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8266

If you guys are Mac users, please test darchon's patch.

Also, a problem exists in FreeBSD:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8451

I lost my FreeBSD environment, so I cannot help fixing #8451 at this moment.

--Kazu

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Hello all,

I apologize for the lack of updates recently. I'm well aware people are a bit ready to move on, so the good news is we should be able to do so shortly.

Simon and I talked last week, and for the RC to go ahead, we've decided to punt a few tickets for the moment. The biggest hurdle is dynamic support on Windows, which we've decided to punt.

I have put together a page detailing the current status with some more detail about what's going on:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8

I spent a lot of time testing my (just merged) branch on several machines.

The highlights for interested parties:

* OS X looks pretty good across the board, minus a `./validate` bug I need to track down on Mavericks. 10.8 still needs to be tested (this will hopefully happen soon.) Otherwise it seems to be fine. * With the dynamic stuff punted, Windows looks pretty good right now too. There is some minor testsuite fallout I need to investigate. One of Herbert's patches broke the 64bit windows build, and I'm bisecting it. Then I'll test a win64 bootstrap. * Linux, as usual, seems just fine, and I just need to finish the i386 bootstrap. * I need to update some performance numbers.

There is one final bug to fix, #7602, which is a performance regression for OS X, but I'm investigating the `./validate` bug on Mavericks first.

Once these look green across the board, I speculate I'll begin to make the RC. I expect this to happen ASAP (within the week.)

-- Regards,

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