RC Status

[Kazu Yamamoto (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCOzNLXE9CSScbKEI=?=)]

Hi,

For Mac, we should verify darchon's Cabal patch for dynamic linking in
#8266. darchon's patch does not works well in my Mavericks.

	https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8266

If you guys are Mac users, please test darchon's patch.


Also, a problem exists in FreeBSD:

	https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8451

I lost my FreeBSD environment, so I cannot help fixing #8451 at this
moment.

--Kazu

> Hello all,
> 
> I apologize for the lack of updates recently. I'm well aware people
> are a bit ready to move on, so the good news is we should be able to
> do so shortly.
> 
> Simon and I talked last week, and for the RC to go ahead, we've
> decided to punt a few tickets for the moment. The biggest hurdle is
> dynamic support on Windows, which we've decided to punt.
> 
> I have put together a page detailing the current status with some more
> detail about what's going on:
> 
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8
> 
> I spent a lot of time testing my (just merged) branch on several machines.
> 
> The highlights for interested parties:
> 
>  * OS X looks pretty good across the board, minus a `./validate` bug I
> need to track down on Mavericks. 10.8 still needs to be tested (this
> will hopefully happen soon.) Otherwise it seems to be fine.
>  * With the dynamic stuff punted, Windows looks pretty good right now
> too. There is some minor testsuite fallout I need to investigate. One
> of Herbert's patches broke the 64bit windows build, and I'm bisecting
> it. Then I'll test a win64 bootstrap.
>  * Linux, as usual, seems just fine, and I just need to finish the
> i386 bootstrap.
>  * I need to update some performance numbers.
> 
> There is one final bug to fix, #7602, which is a performance
> regression for OS X, but I'm investigating the `./validate` bug on
> Mavericks first.
> 
> Once these look green across the board, I speculate I'll begin to make
> the RC. I expect this to happen ASAP (within the week.)
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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