Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

Jens Petersen writes:

On 8 February 2016 at 03:13, Ben Gamari wrote:

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http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc2/

Thank you for RC2.

I'm happy to help. Sorry about the delayed response Jens; I'm still catching up after some downtime due to sickness earlier this week.

I finally built ghc-8.0.0 for Fedora Rawhide (quick build): https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.0.1 (perf build is still ongoing).

One minor thing I noticed is that docdir seems have changed RC2 to be versioned. ie the LICENSE files for the included libraries now get installed under "/usr/share/doc/ghc-<version>/html/libraries/*/" rather than "/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/*/" before. I managed to work around that by configuring with --docdir=/usr/share/doc but it took me by surprise.

This was an intentional change; see #11354. I'll make sure it is mentioned in the next release candidate announcement. Thanks for mentioning this. Cheers, - Ben