Thanks Ben, this is great!
Installing the binary on the Mac results in the following minor problem:
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1
"/usr/local/share/man/man1"
install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71
make: *** [install] Error 2
The error message is a bit confusing as the file does exist.
It is easily resolved by
rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1
I believe I encountered the same problem on ghc 8.0.1 rc1
Thanks
George
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:39 PM Ben Gamari
Hello everyone,
The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at
http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/
This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release candidates leading up the final 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number bugs found in 8.0.1 including,
* Interface file build determinism (#4012).
* Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile position-independent executables by default
* Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)
* A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while compiling some packages (see #12076)
* Compatability with systems which use the gold linker
* A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system
* A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads.
* A typechecker bug which caused some programs using -XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.
* More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete listing.
Unfortunately there is one known bug (#12757) which can result in runtime crashes which is still lurking in -rc1. This will be fixed in -rc2, which will be released in about a week.
As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!
Happy testing,
- Ben
[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.0.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs