[ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

[Richard Eisenberg]

I can't build 7.10.3 RC1 because I don't have readelf. ./configure says this:

> checking for readelf... no
> configure: error: cannot find readelf in your PATH

A (very) quick search has turned up no help. I'm worried that my problem is that I'm still running Mac OS 10.8.5 (Snow Leopard? I never could keep track of all the animals... and now mountains.) I *really* don't want to upgrade, as I tried 10.9 once and it brought my system to its knees... had to reformat to downgrade back to 10.8.

Help?

Thanks!
Richard

On Nov 4, 2015, at 5:53 AM, Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus at iki.fi> wrote:

> Travis has whitelisted hvr/ppa ghc-7.10.3 package. Please update your
> travis build matrices!
> 
> Let’s make travis do its job!
> 
> Cheers,
> Oleg
> 
>> On 02 Nov 2015, at 18:03, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> We are pleased to announce the first (and hopefully only) release
>> candidate for GHC 7.10.3:
>> 
>>   https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3-rc1/
>> 
>> This includes the source tarball and bindists for 64-bit and 32-bit
>> modern Linux (GMP 5.0 or later) and Windows. These binaries and tarballs
>> have an accompanying SHA256SUMS file signed by my GPG key id
>> (0x97DB64AD). As always, our content delivery network tends to be a bit
>> slow on the uptake. If you see an empty directory at this URL just add a
>> few superfluous slashes to the end; this is typically enough to fool it.
>> 
>> The 7.10.2 release was well-behaved save a couple notable bugs; while we
>> have merged a good number of bug fixes in 7.10.3 they were were
>> largely low risk and so we expect that this release should be
>> similiarly stable.
>> 
>> The one exception to this is an upgrade of the Windows compiler
>> toolchain to GCC 5.2. Windows users have been long suffering at the hand
>> of our old toolchain (e.g. lack of response file support, #8596, and
>> lack of SEH support) so we expect that this change should fix far more
>> than breaks.
>> 
>> We plan to make the 7.10.3 release sometime next week.
>> 
>> Please test this as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find
>> them before the release and this will ideally be the last release of the
>> 7.10 series.
>> 
>> Happy testing,
>> 
>> - Ben
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