ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.6.1 Release Candidate 1

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.6.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.1-rc1/ This includes the source tarball, installers for 32bit and 64bit Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/OSX and i386/OSX. Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! Thanks Ian, on behalf of the GHC team

I've tested this on Ubuntu 12.04 running on ARM (this is using ARM hard-float ABI) with Ubuntu's provided LLVM 3.0 and it compiles well. Testsuite summary is attached. We still do have some work to be done on ARM Linker as majority of failing tests are GHCi related. Cheers, Karel On 08/12/12 09:57 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote:
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.6.1:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.1-rc1/
This includes the source tarball, installers for 32bit and 64bit Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/OSX and i386/OSX.
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!
Thanks Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
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Am 12.08.2012 21:57, schrieb Ian Lynagh:
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.6.1:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.1-rc1/
This includes the source tarball, installers for 32bit and 64bit Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/OSX and i386/OSX.
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!
I cannot test much, as long as the text package cannot be installed. dependency integer-gmp needs to be increased and: -bash-3.00$ cabal build Building text-0.11.2.2... Preprocessing library text-0.11.2.2... [26 of 39] Compiling Data.Text.IO.Internal ( Data/Text/IO/Internal.hs, dist/build/Data/Text/IO/Internal.o ) Data/Text/IO/Internal.hs:35:24: Module `Prelude' does not export `catch' C.
Thanks Ian, on behalf of the GHC team

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:47:18PM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
Am 12.08.2012 21:57, schrieb Ian Lynagh:
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.6.1:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.1-rc1/
This includes the source tarball, installers for 32bit and 64bit Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/OSX and i386/OSX.
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!
I cannot test much, as long as the text package cannot be installed.
Feel free to use my git version: https://github.com/sol/text Cheers, Simon

Am 14.08.2012 16:08, schrieb Simon Hengel:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:47:18PM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: [...]
I cannot test much, as long as the text package cannot be installed.
Feel free to use my git version: https://github.com/sol/text
Thanks, I've use it for http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7150 C.
Cheers, Simon

Hi there,
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Ian Lynagh
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.6.1:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.1-rc1/
This includes the source tarball, installers for 32bit and 64bit Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/OSX and i386/OSX.
Could somebody please apply my patch (see attached) so the FreeBSD builder clients could produce working binaries again? Thanks, Gabor

On 13 August 2012 04:57, Ian Lynagh
wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.6.1:
I did a proper test build on Fedora 18 Alpha x86_64: If you wish to try it on Fedora (I think it might work on Fedora 17 too) you can download it from http://petersen.fedorapeople.org/ghc-7.6/ The srpm and buildlogs are also there. I noticed that extensible-extensions is gone? Will it move to Haskell Platform? hscolour also fails to build out of the box. Jens

Sorry I am a bit late to this: it appears to work fine on all my platforms: el5, el6, fc16, fc17 (justhub.org/catalogue). I haven't tested it thoroughly yet. Chris

hscolour also fails to build out of the box. This is the Prelude.catch issue. Regards, Malcolm

Ian Lynagh wrote:
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.6.1:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.1-rc1/
This includes the source tarball, installers for 32bit and 64bit Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/OSX and i386/OSX.
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!
On PowerPc I get this:
compiler/nativeGen/X86/Regs.hs:61:1:
Warning: The import of `CmmCallConv' is redundant
except perhaps to import instances from `CmmCallConv'
To import instances alone, use: import CmmCallConv()
which in HEAD was fixed by the application of this patch:
commit 2f7c578574a9d5e9b4d95847abc3d1cb1b35336d
Author: Erik de Castro Lopo
participants (10)
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Chris Dornan
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Christian Maeder
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Erik de Castro Lopo
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Ian Lynagh
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Jens Petersen
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Johan Tibell
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Karel Gardas
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malcolm.wallace
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Páli Gábor János
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Simon Hengel