[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 source tarball available

[Karel Gardas]

On 05/14/16 10:18 PM, Páli Gábor János wrote:
> 2016-05-14 13:06 GMT+02:00 Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz>:
>> On 05/14/16 11:28 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>>> The pragmatist in me wants to answer 1) yes, 2) no, although I do
>>> dislike the idea of distributing binaries that weren't derived from the
>>> associated source tarball.
>>
>> I guess all other Linuxes naturally use gnu
>> make as `make' and Windows in msys too so only non-GNU/non-Linux
>> systems should be affected and from those only FreeBSD has caught this.
>
> Yes, that is possible.  I do not know either Solaris or OpenBSD well
> enough, but I suspect they might have GNU make(1) installed in their
> paths as `make` or their default make(1) can understand GNU-style

No, on Solaris `make` is some Sun/Oracle make:

$ make --version
make: Warning: Ignoring DistributedMake -v option
make: Warning: Ignoring DistributedMake -o option
make: Fatal error: No dmake output dir argument after -o flag

and GNU make is correctly installed as `gmake`:

$ gmake --version
GNU Make 3.82
Built for i386-pc-solaris2.11
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.


and on OpenBSD this is the same, except that `make` is BSD make:

$ make --version
make: unknown option -- -
usage: make [-BeiknpqrSst] [-C directory] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-f mk]
             [-I directory] [-j max_processes] [-m directory] [-V variable]
             [NAME=value] [target ...]


$ gmake --version
GNU Make 4.1
Built for x86_64-unknown-openbsd5.9
Copyright (C) 1988-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.


> Anyhow, in my humble opinion, it is a bad practice the hardwire the
> name of the make tool in the sources.

Completely agree with you on this.

>> If this is
>> true, then I would recommend "no" to both points and leave the fix in 8.0
>> branch for 8.0.2...
>
> Well, in theory, FreeBSD is still a Tier-1 platform, so every release
> should just build fine without any further efforts.  I am also aware
> of the fact I am considered a minority here, and that this is just a
> minor technical problem that could wait for some undetermined time.
> However, personally, I would be quite disappointed if this promise was
> broken.

Hmm, indeed, FreeBSD is tier-1. I'm sorry, but I completely forgotten this.

> I am sorry and apologize that I found this bug after the release was
> tagged, but I did not have the chance to test it before it was
> considered a final release.  I tracked the 8.0.1 Release Candidates
> and provided binary tarballs for them, they all went fine, but
> apparently that was not enough.

Apparently this slipped from HEAD to 8.0 branch and it should not, 
especially considering this was already on RC4. But well such mistakes 
happen. OK! I've thought to save the energy on building another set of 
dists, but you have my word on this, to have FBSD folks happy I'm ready 
to rebuild again if Ben submits `c' version of 8.0.1 release source 
code. :-)

Cheers,
Karel