GHC 8.0.1-rc4 source tarball availability

[Carter Schonwald]

i'm running into some confusions with getting docs built correclty / not
generating the pdfs and html assets i expect, i'll share an updated sha etc
when i track that down

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:52 AM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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