ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.4.1

[Simon Marlow]

On 22 September 2005 14:10, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:27:38PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> On 22 September 2005 13:11, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:51:47PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>    =============================================================
>>>>     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.4.1
>>>>    =============================================================
>>> 
>>>> Supported Platforms
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>> 
>>>> GHC supports the following platforms in this release:
>>>> 
>>>>   * x86 machines running Windows, common flavours of Linux,
>>>>     FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD
>>> 
>>> Don't forget the port to GNU/Hurd!
>>> :-)
>> 
>> Good point, I completely forgot.
> 
> No problem.  :-)
> It's not that important, since I'm most probably the only one who used
> it until now and that--so far--only for building darcs...  :-/
> 
>> If you have a distribution, I can add
>> it to the 6.4.1 downloads.
> 
> How can I create a `generic binary bundle' from a built source tree,
> like the ones you provide on
> <URL:http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html>?

more or less like this:

  $ tar xvjf ghc-6.4.1-src.tar.bz2
  $ cd ghc-6.4.1
  $ echo "BIN_DIST=1" >mk/build.mk
  $ make
  $ make binary-dist Project=Ghc
  $ tar cvjf ghc-6.4.1-i386-gnu-hurd.tar.bz2 ghc-6.4.1

the important thing is that you set "BIN_DIST=1" in mk/build.mk *before*
building.  It affects certain tools and the package database.

If you can't build docs on your machine (a common problem), then you can
grab docs from another distribution and put them in yours.

Cheers,
	Simon