Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 12:34 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

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Hi Folks,

We're finally in release-candidate mode for 6.4.2. Please grab a snapshot and try it out:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/

(scroll to the bottom for the latest). The available builds are: x86_64-unknown-linux (Fedora Core 5), i386-unknown-linux (glibc 2.3 era), and Windows (i386-unknown-mingw32).

There's a source snapshot if you want to build yourself - please try this if you can, we need to make sure the source bundle builds cleanly.

One thing that Don, Ian and I were discussing was having a tarball of the testsuite and nofib performance suite to go along with the official 6.4.2 release. This would make it easier for us to be consistent. Having the testsuite go with the ghc release will mean we can be sure about which tests we expect to fail on x86/amd64 and we can use that as a comparison for the other arch ports.

I've put the testsuite bundle here: http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/ghc-testsuite-6.4.2.tar.gz There are zero unexpected failures on x86/x86_64 on Linux. I think there may be a few unexpected failures on Windows, but I've checked them and they're not fatal. I'll probably update nofib and make a bundle of that too. There are currently a few bogus failures due to floating point wibbles.

If we could get a tarball of the testsuite out before the release then we can send in our results for various arches and that could be included into the know failures files for the testsuite that goes official release. It'd give us a better sense of the state of things on each arch. Perhaps we could record testsuite results for different arches on the ghc wiki somewhere.

Sure, that's a good idea. I've left it a bit late to make any changes to 6.4.2 based on anything you find, but it'll still be useful to record the results for comparison with future versions. Cheers, Simon