ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.2

============================================================ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.2 ============================================================ We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 6.2. Highlights include: * Arrows syntax * New pragma: UNPACK for selectively unpacking strict constructor fields. * New option -e for giving an expression to evaluate on the command-line. * Portability improvements. GHC has been ported to a few new platforms. * Removal of obsolete features: _ccall_, _casm_, ``...''. * Many bugs fixed See the release notes for a full list of the changes: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/release-6.2.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ We supply binary builds in the native package format for various flavours of Linux and BSD, and in Windows Installer (MSI) form for Windows folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available as a .tar.gz which can be installed wherever you want. The source distribution is also available from the same place. Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later. Background ~~~~~~~~~~ Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and revised December 2002. GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license. A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below). On-line GHC-related resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html System requirements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 64+MB memory, GCC and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms: * i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32} * sparc-sun-solaris2 * alpha-dec-osf3 * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS/X) Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a wunderhacker), but haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware: * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10} * i386-unknown-solaris2 * mips-sgi-irix{5,6} * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete run-down of what ports work; it can be found at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ Please report bugs using our SourceForge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/ or send them to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org. GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org. Bleeding edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc@haskell.org.

An rpm package of ghc 6.2 for i386 Linux (glibc 2.3) is available now at: http://haskell.org/~petersen/rpms/ghc/?C=M&O=D Cheers, Jens

Hi Jens,
It's excellent, but we cannot use it
because Japanese dominant distribution
Vine Linux adopts, as its policy,
stable but old libraries including glib.
Could you also put SRPM files of GHC6.2 for us to rebuild it?
Hiroyuki Miyoshi
From: Jens Petersen
An rpm package of ghc 6.2 for i386 Linux (glibc 2.3) is available now at:
http://haskell.org/~petersen/rpms/ghc/?C=M&O=D
Cheers, Jens

"HM" == Hiroyuki Miyoshi
writes:
HM> Could you also put SRPM files of GHC6.2 for us to HM> rebuild it? There is a nosrc rpm package at: http://haskell.org/~petersen/rpms/ghc/ghc-6.2-1.nosrc.rpm Please use that with original source tarball. Hope that helps, Jens

From: Jens Petersen
There is a nosrc rpm package at:
Ah! I misread it as noarch.rpm. Thank you very much. Hiroyuki

since GHC version 6.2.the following link is missing: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/base/index.html I asume that I need to change my bookmark to: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/index.html Cheers Christian

simonmar:
============================================================ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.2 ============================================================
We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 6.2.
A binary distribution for mips64-sgi-irix is available at: ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/users/dons/ghc/6.2/ghc-6.2-mips64-sgi-irix.tar.bz2 This is an unregisterised build, with profiling libs, no docs and no GHCi. The mips64 port requires an external libgmp. This should come installed with the "freeware" packages for Irix. Happy mips'ing, Don

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
This is an unregisterised build, with profiling libs, no docs and no GHCi.
The mips64 port requires an external libgmp. This should come installed with the "freeware" packages for Irix.
- And set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable properly: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/freeware/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH Warning: 64 ABI is not default ABI on gcc-3.X . If you install locally either gmp or gcc directly form source tar balls (e.g on $HOME) , becare of export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$HOME/lib/mabi\=64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH Thanks , dons... Let's try the registerised version !!!

rmartine:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
This is an unregisterised build, with profiling libs, no docs and no GHCi.
The mips64 port requires an external libgmp. This should come installed with the "freeware" packages for Irix.
- And set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable properly:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/freeware/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Warning: 64 ABI is not default ABI on gcc-3.X . If you install locally either gmp or gcc directly form source tar balls (e.g on $HOME) , becare of
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$HOME/lib/mabi\=64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Ah! Yes.
Thanks , dons...
Let's try the registerised version !!!
I'm working on it :) -- Don

simonmar:
============================================================ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.2 ============================================================
We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 6.2.
A binary distribution for ia64-unknown-linux is available at: ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/users/dons/ghc/6.2/ghc-6.2-ia64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 This is a full build, with profiling libs and ghci, but no docs. The ia64 port requires an external libgmp, installed in some sensible place. Thanks to Matt Chapman for making this port possible. Happy coding, Don

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:05:14PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
============================================================ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.2 ============================================================
And, for Christmas, we at Debian bring you sackful of debs! For x86, alpha, hppa, ia64 and powerpc there are packages for unstable in the main Debian archive (these will move into testing early in the new year). "apt-get update; apt-get install ghc6 ghc6-prof ghc6-doc" as normal, with ghc6-hopengl, ghc6-threaded-rts and ghc6-libsrc providing the extra bits for those who want them. For x86 I've also compiled for stable and uploaded to Isaac's "Haskell Experimental" repository. To use it add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://www.syntaxpolice.org/haskell-experimental/ stable/ and install as above. Unfortunately things aren't quite back to normal after the recent Debian break-in, so sparc and s390 builds haven't been done yet. Also, only x86, sparc and ia64 are registerised builds. I'll try a powerpc registerised build when I can log in to a suitable machine again. Hope you're all enjoying yourselves! Ian

Ian Lynagh
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And, for Christmas, we at Debian bring you sackful of debs!
Fantastic! Actually, I already downloaded them a couple of days ago, but thought to wait with the thanks until the announcement. *THANKS!* Both for the developers and for the packagers, who take the pain of providing Woody packages, too! Merry Christmas! Feri.

============================================================ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.2 ============================================================
A binary package for Mac OS X version 10.3 (Panther) is now available at http://www.uni-graz.at/imawww/haskell/GHC.6.2.dmg Includes OpenGL support. It will probably not work on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). I don't have a machine with 10.2 left, so I won't be able to release a package for 10.2. Cheers, Wolfgang
participants (9)
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Christian Maeder
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dons@cse.unsw.edu.au
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Ferenc Wagner
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Hiroyuki Miyoshi
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Ian Lynagh
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Jens Petersen
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Rafael Martinez Torres
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Simon Marlow
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Wolfgang Thaller