ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6.1 Release Candidate

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 19:39 , Thorkil Naur wrote:

> 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.

This is the relevant darcs patch:

Mon Sep 18 16:28:31 PDT 2006  bjorn at bringert.net
   * Added Darwinports path to DocBook XSL stylesheets to configure.

     M ./configure.ac -1 +1

/Björn