RC Status

[Austin Seipp]

Hi Jan,

I believe this is my fault (see the email I just sent to Mark about
some failures in HEAD.) Sorry about that!

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl> wrote:
> I just filled a bug report for a compile-time crash that happens on HEAD:
>
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8686
>
> Looks like this is fault of some dynamic stuff. I'm affraid that whatever the cause of this
> problem is it might have large impact if we release stable GHC with this issue unfixed.
>
> Janek
>
> Dnia sobota, 18 stycznia 2014, Páli Gábor János napisał:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks a lot. I will be branching soon. Please let me know if you need
>> > me to merge anything to the release branch.
>>
>> I have not seen a ghc-7.8 branch yet, but here are the hashes for the
>> commits I would merge:
>>
>> 1ad599ea241626f47006fa386e4aaf38dc91fdbb -- Fixes #8451
>> bcc5c953f80c53732172345639f30974b9862043 -- DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS=YES for
>> FreeBSD c3b8b3ab27f092c83e08915e3de0bde29321cd31 -- Minor fix in configure
>> (I have been using it in the FreeBSD ports tree)
>> 0d90cbc988af31ff8ea35120203bd9d252d8055e -- Enable the LLVM codegen
>> for FreeBSD/amd64 (also used in the FreeBSD ports tree)
>>
>> I have also run through your 7.8 RC checklist [1] and I would update
>> it with the following information:
>>
>> - FreeBSD (i386): builds clean, validate works, bootstrapping works.
>> - FreeBSD (x86_64): builds clean, validate works, bootstrapping works.
>> - Dynamic GHCi is now enabled and works for both i386 and x86_64 on
>> FreeBSD.
>>
>> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8
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Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/