ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6.1 Release Candidate

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 16:41, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.1.
> ...

A few comments to the source bundles

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src.tar.bz2
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.6.20070410-src-extralibs.tar.bz2

1. There are binary (.p_o and .p_hi) files present in 
libraries/HGL/Graphics/HGL/X11 and below.

2. On my PPC Mac OS X 10.4, configure reports

checking for DocBook XSL stylesheet directory... no
configure: WARNING: cannot find DocBook XSL stylesheets, you will not be able 
to build the documentation

Some time ago, I installed docbook-xsl from mac/darwinports and this complaint 
disappeared from the HEAD, but not from the 6.6 branch. The relevant HEAD 
change is this:

diff ghc-6.6-for-buildbot-20070221_1000/ghc/configure.ac 
ghc-HEAD-for-669-20070324_1621/ghc/configure.ac
...
931c976
< 
FP_DIR_DOCBOOK_XSL([/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh /usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets* /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl
-stylesheets* /opt/kde?/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl /usr/share/docbook-xsl /usr/share/sgml/docbkxsl /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook /sw/share/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl])
---
> 
FP_DIR_DOCBOOK_XSL([/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh /usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-stylesheets* /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl
-stylesheets* /opt/kde?/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl /usr/share/docbook-xsl /usr/share/sgml/docbkxsl /usr/local/share/xsl/docbook /sw/share/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl /opt/local/share/xsl/d
ocbook-xsl])
...

I suppose it would be useful for this change to be merged to 6.6.1.

Best regards
Thorkil