ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6.1 Release Candidate

We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.1. Snapshots beginning with 6.6.20070409 are release candidates for 6.6.1 You can download snapshots from here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ Right now we have the source bundles: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070409-src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070409-src-extralibs.t... Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package contains various extra packages that we normally supply with GHC - unpack the extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they will be included in the build automatically. There are also currently binary distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later. The Windows (mingw) binary distributions are currently broken, but we hope to have this resolved soon. Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! We hope to release in a couple of weeks, but of course that may slip if problems are uncovered. Thanks Ian, on behalf of the GHC team

Hello, On Tuesday 10 April 2007 16:41, Ian Lynagh wrote:
We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.1. ...
A few comments to the source bundles http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src-extralibs.t... 1. There are binary (.p_o and .p_hi) files present in libraries/HGL/Graphics/HGL/X11 and below. 2. On my PPC Mac OS X 10.4, configure reports checking for DocBook XSL stylesheet directory... no configure: WARNING: cannot find DocBook XSL stylesheets, you will not be able to build the documentation Some time ago, I installed docbook-xsl from mac/darwinports and this complaint disappeared from the HEAD, but not from the 6.6 branch. The relevant HEAD change is this: diff ghc-6.6-for-buildbot-20070221_1000/ghc/configure.ac ghc-HEAD-for-669-20070324_1621/ghc/configure.ac ... 931c976 < FP_DIR_DOCBOOK_XSL([/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh /usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets* /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl -stylesheets* /opt/kde?/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl /usr/share/docbook-xsl /usr/share/sgml/docbkxsl /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook /sw/share/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl]) ---
FP_DIR_DOCBOOK_XSL([/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh /usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets* /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl -stylesheets* /opt/kde?/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl /usr/share/docbook-xsl /usr/share/sgml/docbkxsl /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook /sw/share/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl /opt/local/share/xsl/d ocbook-xsl]) ... I suppose it would be useful for this change to be merged to 6.6.1. Best regards Thorkil

On Apr 11, 2007, at 19:39 , Thorkil Naur wrote:
Hello,
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 16:41, Ian Lynagh wrote:
We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.1. ...
A few comments to the source bundles
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410- src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src- extralibs.tar.bz2
1. There are binary (.p_o and .p_hi) files present in libraries/HGL/Graphics/HGL/X11 and below.
2. On my PPC Mac OS X 10.4, configure reports
checking for DocBook XSL stylesheet directory... no configure: WARNING: cannot find DocBook XSL stylesheets, you will not be able to build the documentation
Some time ago, I installed docbook-xsl from mac/darwinports and this complaint disappeared from the HEAD, but not from the 6.6 branch. The relevant HEAD change is this:
diff ghc-6.6-for-buildbot-20070221_1000/ghc/configure.ac ghc-HEAD-for-669-20070324_1621/ghc/configure.ac ... 931c976 < FP_DIR_DOCBOOK_XSL([/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/ current /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh /usr/share/sgml/ docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets* /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl -stylesheets* /opt/kde?/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl /usr/ share/docbook-xsl /usr/share/sgml/docbkxsl /usr/local/share/xsl/ docbook /sw/share/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl]) ---
FP_DIR_DOCBOOK_XSL([/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/ current /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh /usr/share/sgml/ docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets* /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl -stylesheets* /opt/kde?/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl /usr/ share/docbook-xsl /usr/share/sgml/docbkxsl /usr/local/share/xsl/ docbook /sw/share/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl /opt/local/share/xsl/d ocbook-xsl]) ...
I suppose it would be useful for this change to be merged to 6.6.1.
This is the relevant darcs patch: Mon Sep 18 16:28:31 PDT 2006 bjorn@bringert.net * Added Darwinports path to DocBook XSL stylesheets to configure. M ./configure.ac -1 +1 /Björn

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:14:37PM +0200, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
On Apr 11, 2007, at 19:39 , Thorkil Naur wrote:
2. On my PPC Mac OS X 10.4, configure reports
checking for DocBook XSL stylesheet directory... no configure: WARNING: cannot find DocBook XSL stylesheets, you will not be able to build the documentation
Some time ago, I installed docbook-xsl from mac/darwinports and this complaint disappeared from the HEAD, but not from the 6.6 branch. The relevant HEAD change is this:
[...]
I suppose it would be useful for this change to be merged to 6.6.1.
This is the relevant darcs patch:
Mon Sep 18 16:28:31 PDT 2006 bjorn@bringert.net * Added Darwinports path to DocBook XSL stylesheets to configure.
M ./configure.ac -1 +1
Now merged, thanks! Ian

Thorkil Naur wrote:
Hello,
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 16:41, Ian Lynagh wrote:
We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.1. ...
A few comments to the source bundles
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src-extralibs.t...
1. There are binary (.p_o and .p_hi) files present in libraries/HGL/Graphics/HGL/X11 and below.
Thanks, this should now be fixed (from tomorrow's snapshot onwards). Cheers, Simon
participants (4)
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Bjorn Bringert
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Ian Lynagh
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Simon Marlow
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Thorkil Naur