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
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,
Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs