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

[Austin Seipp]

(Grr, resending to list...)

Hello all,

The 7.8 branch is officially ready for RC1 (after some final Haddock
bugs got quickly squashed by Gergo and Mateusz.)

Pali, Luke - this is specifically for you two as you have offered to
make the FreeBSD and iOS builds (Luke - 7.8 should contain both the
fix for __thread and the perf-cross flavor, so it should work out of
the box for you.)

Attached is a fingerprint file for the GHC repository. You can restore it with:

$ ./utils/fingerprint/fingerprint.py restore -f ghc-7.8-rc1.fingerprint

See here for more details -
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#Trackingthefullrepositorystate

Alternatively, simply checking out to the 'ghc-7.8' branch will result
in the same thing - no new commits will go in until after RC1:

$ git clone -b ghc-7.8 git://git.haskell.org/ghc ghc-7.8
$ cd ghc-7.8
$ ./sync-all get -b ghc-7.8 --extra --nofib

Afterwords, just build and make the binaries as you normally would:

$ ./boot; ./configure
$ make
$ make binary-dist

Please let me know when the builds are done and somewhere to obtain
them, and I'll upload them to haskell.org for the RC. I'll begin my
builds now too...

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Austin Seipp <aseipp at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The 7.8 branch is officially ready for RC1 (after some final Haddock
> bugs got quickly squashed by Gergo and Mateusz.)
>
> Pali, Luke - this is specifically for you two as you have offered to
> make the FreeBSD and iOS builds (Luke - 7.8 should contain both the
> fix for __thread and the perf-cross flavor, so it should work out of
> the box for you.)
>
> Attached is a fingerprint file for the GHC repository. You can restore it with:
>
> $ ./utils/fingerprint/fingerprint.py restore -f ghc-7.8-rc1.fingerprint
>
> See here for more details -
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#Trackingthefullrepositorystate
>
> Alternatively, simply checking out to the 'ghc-7.8' branch will result
> in the same thing - no new commits will go in until after RC1:
>
> $ git clone -b ghc-7.8 git://git.haskell.org/ghc ghc-7.8
> $ cd ghc-7.8
> $ ./sync-all get -b ghc-7.8 --extra --nofib
>
> Afterwords, just build and make the binaries as you normally would:
>
> $ ./boot; ./configure
> $ make
> $ make binary-dist
>
> Please let me know when the builds are done and somewhere to obtain
> them, and I'll upload them to haskell.org for the RC. I'll begin my
> builds now too...
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:
>> Hello Herbert,
>>
>>> Hello Kazu,
>>>
>>> ..as this is a Cabal issue, this needs to be handled upstream; could you
>>> please file an issue at
>>>
>>>   https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/new
>>
>> Done.
>>
>>         https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1660
>>
>> --Kazu
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671



-- 
Regards,

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