GHC 8.0.1-rc4 source tarball availability

[Carter Schonwald]

looks like i dont have dblatex setup on that build machine, fixing that
now! (slightly trick on mac)

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>>
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