ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

[Gregory Wright]

Hi Christophe,

On Dec 23, 2007, at 11:02 AM, alpheccar wrote:

> Was someone able to build ghc 6.8.2 on PPC with OS X 10.4 (Tiger) ?
> I had no problems to build the 6.8.1 but with 6.8.2, I get the error:
>
I was able to build 6.8.2 three times on PPC/Tiger (10.4.11) without  
error
using 6.6.1 as a boostrap compiler.  What are you using to compile  
6.8.2?

> ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -package-name base-3.0.1.0 -hide- 
> all-packages -split-objs -i -idist/build/autogen -idist/build -i. - 
> Idist/build -Iinclude -#include "HsBase.h" -odir dist/build -hidir  
> dist/build -stubdir dist/build -package rts-1.0 -O -fglasgow-exts - 
> package-name base -XCPP -idist/build  -H16m -O -O -Rghc-timing - 
> fgenerics -c Data/Generics/Twins.hs -o dist/build/Data/Generics/ 
> Twins.o  -ohi dist/build/Data/Generics/Twins.hi
> ghc-6.8.2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>  (GHC version 6.8.2 for powerpc-apple-darwin):
>        lookupVers1 base:GHC.Prim sym{tc}
>
> Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ 
> reportabug
>

Best Wishes,
Greg