<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Ben, this is great!</div><div><br></div>Installing the binary on the Mac results in the following minor problem:<div><br></div><div><div><font face="monospace">/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 "/usr/local/share/man/man1"</font></div><div><font face="monospace">install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory</font></div><div><font face="monospace">make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71</font></div><div><font face="monospace">make: *** [install] Error 2</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>The error message is a bit confusing as the file does exist.<br></div><div>It is easily resolved by</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace"> rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1<br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I believe I encountered the same problem on ghc 8.0.1 rc1</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>George</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:39 PM Ben Gamari <<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com">ben@well-typed.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
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The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the<br class="gmail_msg">
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This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release candidates<br class="gmail_msg">
leading up the final 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number bugs<br class="gmail_msg">
found in 8.0.1 including,<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Interface file build determinism (#4012).<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Compatability with systems which use the gold linker<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest<br class="gmail_msg">
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* A typechecker bug which caused some programs using<br class="gmail_msg">
-XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.<br class="gmail_msg">
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* More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete<br class="gmail_msg">
listing.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Unfortunately there is one known bug (#12757) which can result in<br class="gmail_msg">
runtime crashes which is still lurking in -rc1. This will be fixed in<br class="gmail_msg">
-rc2, which will be released in about a week.<br class="gmail_msg">
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As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who<br class="gmail_msg">
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Happy testing,<br class="gmail_msg">
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- Ben<br class="gmail_msg">
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