On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> wrote:

Hi all,

We are pleased to (finally!) announce the first release candidate
for GHC 6.12.1:

   http://darcs.haskell.org/~ghc/dist/6.12.1rc1/

As well as the source tarball:
   ghc-6.12.0.20091010-src.tar.bz2
there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary
distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. For the Linux binary
distributions, the "linux-n" tarballs are recommended over the "linux"
tarballs.


Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
before the release!


Thanks!  I have been eager to try out 6.12.  Unlike many of the recent snapshots, this one built and installed fine on Mac OS X 10.6 :).
 
Is there an extralibs tarball that I should use with this?  I installed the release candidate without said tarball.  First, I noticed that my old version of cabal-install could not parse the output from ghc-pkg-6.12.0.20091010:

cabal: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump'
 
Then, when I tried to build the network package manually, I got this:

Building network-2.2.1.4...
[1 of 5] Compiling Network.URI      ( Network/URI.hs, dist/build/Network/URI.o )
[2 of 5] Compiling Network.Socket.Internal ( dist/build/Network/Socket/Internal.hs, dist/build/Network/Socket/Internal.o )
[3 of 5] Compiling Network.Socket   ( dist/build/Network/Socket.hs, dist/build/Network/Socket.o )

Network/Socket.hsc:1707:45:
    Not in scope: data constructor `System.Posix.Internals.Stream'

- Philip


Thanks
Ian, on behalf of the GHC team

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