To complement today's fresh release of ghc-6.4.... ------------------------- nhc98-1.18 + hmake-3.10 ------------------------- http://haskell.org/nhc98 http://haskell.org/hmake We are pleased to announce a new release of the nhc98 compiler and the hmake compilation manager. nhc98 is portable to almost any 32-bit unix-like platform, and can be easily bootstrapped with just a C compiler if no existing Haskell compiler is available. Hmake plays happily with ghc and hbc as well as nhc98. This release is mainly a maintenance refresh, fixing numerous bugs, and adding support for many of the new hierarchical libraries that are also supplied with ghc-6.4 and Hugs. Main bugfixes: * Resolved configuration bugs when using ghc-6.2 and ghc-6.4 with hmake. * Build failures associated with gcc-3.3 and upward have been fixed. Main feature updates: * Supplied with these standard library packages: base, parsec, haskell-src, QuickCheck, HaXml, HUnit, Cabal * FFI: foreign import "dynamic" is now supported, and C header-files named in an import are now respected. * cpphs: The compiler and hmake now use cpphs rather than your C compiler for preprocessing. This removes problems with string gaps, primes in identifiers, and so on. * Source now supplied with a small test suite to help verify whether the compiler works on new platforms. This release of nhc98 has been tested with the following machines and build compilers: ix86-Linux (Slackware 10 and RedHat 7.2 built with ghc-5, ghc-6, hbc, gcc-2.95, gcc-3.3, nhc98) ix86-Cygwin (Windows 2000 built with gcc-3.3, ghc-6) sparc-solaris2 (SunOS 5.9 built with ghc-6, gcc-2.95, nhc98) powerpc-Darwin7 (MacOS X 10.3 using ghc-6, gcc-2.95, gcc-3.3) Credits: Malcolm Wallace (release manager) Ian Lynagh (gcc-3.3 bugfixes, hmake-config add-dyn) Wolfgang Thaller (MacOS gcc-3.3 bugfixes) Simon Marlow (ghc configuration fixes) Sven Panne (warning police, hbc build) numerous library authors, distribution packagers, and bug reporters.