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

[Luke Iannini]

Hi Austin,

Awesome. Builds are underway now.

Cheers
Luke


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:

> (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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> >> ghc-devs at haskell.org
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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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