ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Christian Maeder:
> Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
>> To use this binary distribution, you need to have "readline" from
>> MacPorts installed.
>>
>> Manuel
>>
>> PS: This time around, there should be no dependency on MacPorts'  
>> "gmp",
>> but this is hard for me to test locally.
>
> What does your "otool -L" say to your binary?
>
> otool -L compiler/stage2/ghc-6.8.2
> compiler/stage2/ghc-6.8.2:
>        /opt/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib (compatibility version
> 5.0.0, current version 5.2.0)
>        /opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0,
> current version 5.0.0)
>        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0,  
> current
> version 111.0.0)
>        /opt/local/lib/libgmp.3.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0,
> current version 8.1.0)
>        /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
> version 1.0.0)
>
> Does this not indicate that /opt/local/lib/libgmp.3.dylib is needed?

Yes, it does.  That's very strange for the *stage2* compiler.  I ran  
otool on pwd and ghc-pkg (which were the problem in 6.8.1 and those  
binaries don't depend on "gmp").

Ian, why would a stage2 compiler depend on an external gmp?  I thought  
it would always use the one bundled with ghc.

Manuel