Hi Stefan, On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:55:21AM +0200, Stefan Holdermans wrote:

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We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.1.

That's 6.8, right? Or have I missed something?

No, it's 6.8.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/version-numbering.h... Thanks Ian

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:40:49AM -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote:

Seems like something is wrong with this version number though:

Snapshots beginning with 6.8.20070909 are release candidates for 6.8.1

You are right, thanks. I'll fix it. Ian

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:55:31AM +0200, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

Seems there is a missing "do" in compiler/main/InteractiveEval.hs on line 334.

Thanks for the report! It will be fixed in the next snapshot. Thanks Ian

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:24:42PM +0100, Adrian Hey wrote:

Ian Lynagh wrote:

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

With the windows build ghc-6.8.20070912-i386-unknown-mingw32.exe, when I try something like..

runghc Setup.hs build

I get this error message..

ghc.exe: not built for interactive use

Thanks for the report! This is a symptom of the stage2 build failure, meaning the installer is using the stage 1 compiler which can't do bytecode compilation. Therefore this should also be fixed in the next snapshot. Thanks Ian

Adrian Hey wrote:

OK. Meanwhile I've tried compiling setup.hs and building the 6.6 version of the collections package..

Also, there still seems to be a problem with building Haddock docs in windows. Although Haddock now seems to find the relevant base package haddock, it still doesn't link to it properly because the links are all missing the "file://" prefix. But I'm not sure if this is haddock-0.8 problem, a Cabal problem or a ghc distro problem. Regards -- Adrian Hey

| BTW, should I be reporting bugs with the release candidate on this | list or via the usual trac? Via Trac please. Can you give instructions to reproduce, please? Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org] On | Behalf Of Adrian Hey | Sent: 19 September 2007 12:00 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.1 Release Candidate | | Adrian Hey wrote: | > I get this error.. | > | > [29 of 53] Compiling Data.Tree.AVL.Join ( | > Data.Tree.AVL/Data/Tree/AVL/Join.hs, dist\build/Data/Tree/AVL/Join.o ) | > ghc.exe: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) | > (GHC version 6.8.20070912 for i386-unknown-mingw32): | > cgPanic | > a{v sMX} [lid] | > static binds for: | > collections-0.3:Data.Tree.AVL.Join.poly_go{v rse} [gid] | > collections-0.3:Data.Tree.AVL.Join.poly_$wlgo{v rsf} [gid] | > collections-0.3:Data.Tree.AVL.Join.flatConcat{v ryL} [gid] | > local binds for: | > SRT label collections-0.3:Data.Tree.AVL.Join.$LrMelvl{v rMe}_srt | > | > Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug | | I still get this error with 6.8.0.20070917 release, and the haddock | problem with windows still seems to be there. Also, there doesn't | seem to be a runHaskell command included (not sure if that's | intentional). | | BTW, should I be reporting bugs with the release candidate on this | list or via the usual trac? | | Regards | -- | Adrian Hey | | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Ian Lynagh wrote:

Hi Adrian,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:50:47AM +0100, Adrian Hey wrote:

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[29 of 53] Compiling Data.Tree.AVL.Join ( Data.Tree.AVL/Data/Tree/AVL/Join.hs, dist\build/Data/Tree/AVL/Join.o ) ghc.exe: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 6.8.20070912 for i386-unknown-mingw32): cgPanic a{v sMX} [lid] static binds for: collections-0.3:Data.Tree.AVL.Join.poly_go{v rse} [gid] collections-0.3:Data.Tree.AVL.Join.poly_$wlgo{v rsf} [gid] collections-0.3:Data.Tree.AVL.Join.flatConcat{v ryL} [gid] local binds for: SRT label collections-0.3:Data.Tree.AVL.Join.$LrMelvl{v rMe}_srt

Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

I can't reproduce this with the i386/Linux 6.8.0.20070925 and ./Setup configure; ./Setup build:

Sorry, it's already been fixed by SPJ.. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1718 Regards -- Adrian Hey

thanks for reporting this -- it's fixed now. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org] On | Behalf Of kahl@cas.mcmaster.ca | Sent: 14 September 2007 21:46 | To: igloo@earth.li | Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.1 Release Candidate | | > | > We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.1. | > | > Snapshots beginning with 6.8.20070909 are release candidates for 6.8.1 | | I encountered a case where compilation for nested type synonyms explodes | --- this was no problem in 6.6.1. | | Wolfram