<div dir="auto">Thanks for flagging this. This would be the opposite direction of what I’ve been advocating for. That we get bindists for Linux and macOS that work by simply unpacking them.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 10:05 PM, Takenobu Tani <<a href="mailto:takenobu.hs@gmail.com">takenobu.hs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Hi devs,<br>
<br>
The ghc-binary for windows needs to `make install` since ghc-9.0 [1].<br>
Is this an intended change?<br>
<br>
Previously, ghc-8.10.4 binary for windows [2] doesn't need to `make install`.<br>
We only expand the tar-file and then we can execute `bin/ghcii.sh`.<br>
<br>
[1]: <a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/ghc-9.0.1-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/ghc-9.0.1-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz</a><br>
[2]: <a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.4/ghc-8.10.4-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.4/ghc-8.10.4-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz</a><br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Takenobu<br>
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