[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 source tarball available

[George Colpitts]

seems to be intermittent, I have got past this problem

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:12 PM George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Using the ghc I built from the source tarball I encountered a problem  in
> doing a cabal install -j5 hlint (on a Mac). I got
>
> cabal install -j5 hlint
> ...
> Failed to install extra-1.4.6
> Build log ( /Users/gcolpitts/.cabal/logs/extra-1.4.6.log ):
> /Users/gcolpitts/.cabal/logs/extra-1.4.6.log: openFile: does not exist (No
> such file or directory)
>
> I didn't have this problem with earlier versions of ghc 8 when did cabal
> install hlint but I'm not sure if the versions involved in previous hlint
> components were the same
>
> Cheers
> George
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:03 PM Carter Schonwald <
> carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> i hit tar: ghc-8.0.1/utils/haddock/doc/haddock/*: Cannot stat: No such
>> file or directory
>> whats that about?
>> i can try to poke at it this evening too
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > [ Unknown signature status ]
>>> tl;dr: If you would like to produce a binary distribution for GHC
>>>        8.0.1 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 at long last announce the release of the 8.0.1 source
>>> distribution to binary packagers. You will find the usual artifacts at
>>>
>>>     http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/
>>>
>>> These tarballs are derived from GHC commit
>>>
>>>     e99c1e2516aeb283172c7e6898508238e33cf065.
>>>
>>> For this release 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 for this release.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, let either Austin or I know if you have any trouble building
>>> your distribution. As usual I'll hold off on pushing the release git tag
>>> until we have a few binaries built in case we encounter unexpected
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> 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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