GHC 8.0.1-rc4 source tarball availability

[Carter Schonwald]

oddly enough the suggestions in the release notes for 8.0 have the correct
path suggestion, I guess that the command line got out of sync

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 4:11 PM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The error message should be changed from
>
>       Workaround: You may want to pass '--with-nm=nm-classic' to
> 'configure'.
>
> to
>
>        Workaround: You may want to pass '--with-nm=$(xcode-select
> -p)/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/nm-classic' to 'configure'.
>
> Once I did that (as documented in https://ghc.haskell.org/ticket/11744) I
> was able to do a build
>
> Cheers
> George
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 10:37 AM 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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