Hi Ian,
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!
A good news is that GHC 7.6.2 can be compiled on FreeBSD 9.1. But this problem exists: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7592 Typing "gmake -j10" again completes the building. A bad new is that test is not completed. - Compiling T5001 uses CPU 100% - signals004 is waiting for something forever Killing these two processes completes tests. The result is as follows: Unexpected failures: ../../libraries/base/tests/Concurrent Chan002 [bad exit code] (normal) ../../libraries/directory/tests getPermissions001 [bad exit code] (normal) ../../libraries/process/tests 3994 [bad exit code] (threaded1) ../../libraries/unix/tests signals004 [bad exit code] (normal) ../../libraries/unix/tests/libposix posix004 [bad exit code] (normal) ../../libraries/unix/tests/libposix posix005 [bad stdout] (normal) concurrent/should_run conc070 [bad exit code] (ghci) driver dynHelloWorld [bad exit code] (dyn) dynlibs T3807 [bad exit code] (normal) dynlibs T5373 [bad stdout] (normal) ffi/should_run 4038 [bad exit code] (normal) perf/compiler T3294 [stat too good] (normal) perf/compiler T6048 [stat not good enough] (optasm) perf/haddock haddock.Cabal [stat not good enough] (normal) perf/haddock haddock.base [stat not good enough] (normal) perf/haddock haddock.compiler [stat not good enough] (normal) plugins plugins01 [bad exit code] (normal) plugins plugins02 [stderr mismatch] (normal) plugins plugins03 [stderr mismatch] (normal) rts T2615 [bad stdout] (normal) rts derefnull [bad exit code] (normal) rts divbyzero [bad exit code] (normal) rts exec_signals [bad stdout] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly01 [exit code non-0] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly02 [exit code non-0] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly03 [stderr mismatch] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly04 [exit code non-0] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly04 [exit code non-0] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly05 [stderr mismatch] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly06 [exit code non-0] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly07 [stderr mismatch] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly08 [stderr mismatch] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly09 [stderr mismatch] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 ImpSafeOnly10 [exit code non-0] (normal) safeHaskell/check/pkg01 safePkg01 [bad exit code] (normal) --Kazu