7.8 branch is created, HEAD is now open, and a note on merges

[Páli Gábor János]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
> Two systems I won't make builds for RC1 by default (but could be
> persuaded to if nobody else does, and people want it):
[..]
>   - FreeBSD - Pali, if you'd like to do this, feel free, and let me know.

Sure, I can do it.

> This means I'll (mostly) be waiting around today, so feel free to
> shoot questions.

I guess it would useful to know exactly which version to build.  That
is, is it enough to do release builds (by setting RELEASE to "yes")
with the HEAD of the ghc-7.8 branch (of today)...?