bug in 6.8.1-candidate

[Serge D. Mechveliani]

ghc-6.8.0.20071013-src.tar.bz2  (October 13)  
is buggy,
it cannot build the DoCon test module, starts to `panic'.

Now, I shall try 
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.0.20070914-src.tar.bz2

On the other hand, whatever GHC version the developers would like to test,
they can easily take the public  docon-2.10  and follow  install.txt.
The only two small points for porting from  ghc-6.6.1  to  6.8*  are
* replacing  runhaskell  with   runghc  in  source/Makefile,
* adding   ``, containers''  to the line of  build-depends  in  
                                                   source/docon.cabal.

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Mechveliani



On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 04:47:09PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> I'd go for 20070914
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.0.20070914-src.tar.bz2
> 
> S
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Serge D. Mechveliani [mailto:mechvel at botik.ru]
> | Sent: 15 October 2007 15:41
> | To: Simon Peyton-Jones
> | Cc: glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org
> | Subject: Re: bug in 6.8.1-candidate
> |
> | On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:47:37PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | > | But it'd be better still to check with the 6.8 branch, but I can see you can't do that.  IAN, are
> | we
> | > | dumping snapshots of the 6.8 branch for people to try?  Can you help Serge (and perhaps others)
> | have a
> | > | snapshot they can try.
> | >
> | > Actually, Serge, you can find STABLE (i.e. 6.8 branch) snapshots here:
> | >
> | > http://haskell.org/ghc/download.html
> | >
> | > There's no Windows installer in the last few days, for reasons Simon is looking into, but the source
> | distributions should be fine.  I'd wait until after tonight, to be sure Ian's merges have all gone in.
> | >
> | > Simon
> | >
> |
> | Do you mean that
> |
> | http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.0.20071013-src.tar.bz2
> | of  October 13
> | will do?
> |
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> | Mechveliani
>