RC Status

[Austin Seipp]

Hi Kazu,

Yes, I'll test Christiaan's patch and try to get it in today.

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:
> 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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Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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