GHC 8.0.1-rc4 source tarball availability

[George Colpitts]

retrying with

./configure --with-nm=$(xcode-select
-p)/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/nm-classic

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 10:49 AM George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Carter. I'm not so concerned with obtaining a working build. I'd
> like to be able to build with the Apple toolchain. I assume there are other
> developers who feel the same.
>
> Can you elaborate on the "path to nm classic is wrong" ?
>
> Cheers
> George
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 10:42 AM Carter Schonwald <
> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've a working build I'll circulate
>> Also that path to nm classic is wrong.
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 23, 2016, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having problems using the Apple toolchain to build this on Mac OS.
>>> Has anybody succeeded with the Apple toolchain?
>>>
>>> First I get the error:
>>>
>>>      broken 'nm' detected, see https://ghc.haskell.org/ticket/11744.
>>>      Workaround: You may want to pass '--with-nm=nm-classic' to
>>> 'configure'.
>>>
>>> but after I try that workaround I get:
>>>
>>> inplace/bin/deriveConstants --gen-header -o
>>> includes/dist-derivedconstants/header/DerivedConstants.h --tmpdir
>>> includes/dist-derivedconstants/header/ --gcc-program "/usr/bin/gcc"
>>> --gcc-flag -Wall --gcc-flag -Wno-unknown-pragmas --gcc-flag -m64 --gcc-flag
>>> -fno-stack-protector --gcc-flag -Iincludes --gcc-flag -Iincludes/dist
>>> --gcc-flag -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header --gcc-flag
>>> -Iincludes/dist-ghcconstants/header --gcc-flag -Irts --gcc-flag -fcommon
>>> --nm-program "nm-classic" --target-os "darwin"
>>> deriveConstants: nm-classic: readCreateProcess: runInteractiveProcess:
>>> exec: does not exist (No such file or directory)
>>> make[1]: *** [includes/dist-derivedconstants/header/DerivedConstants.h]
>>> Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> George
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:27 AM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> tl;dr: If you would like to produce a binary distribution for GHC
>>>>        8.0.1-rc4 then let us know, grab the source distribution and
>>>>        start building. The binary distributions will be all released one
>>>>        week from today.
>>>>
>>>> Hello GHC packagers,
>>>>
>>>> I am happy to announce the release of the 8.0.1-rc4 source distribution
>>>> to binary packagers. This release should resolve all of the issues noted
>>>> in the release candidate 3 announcement. You will find the usual
>>>> artifacts at
>>>>
>>>>     http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc4/
>>>>
>>>> For this candidate we are again following our new release policy [1],
>>>> with a one-week delay between the release of the source and binary
>>>> distributions. The goal of this policy is to give all platforms the
>>>> opportunity for support from the first day of a release.
>>>>
>>>> If all of the expected binary releases are submitted before the
>>>> week-long delay has elapsed, we will move forward with the release of
>>>> the binaries on an accelerated schedule. It would be appreciated if you
>>>> could reply to this message confirming that you intend to offer a binary
>>>> distribution this release.
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise, let either Austin or I know if you have any trouble building
>>>> your distribution. I have yet to push the ghc-8.0.1-rc4 tag in case we
>>>> encounter unexpected issues but all of my builds with this tarball
>>>> thusfar have gone quite well.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck and thanks for all of your work!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> - Ben
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-March/011546.html
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