ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 08:08:52PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
> > Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> > before the release!
> Hi Ian,
> 
> I haven't done extensive testing, but at least you can start ghci and
> compile simple hello world apps on nixos 64 bit without trouble.

Great, thanks Marc!

> I've noted that I had to use a more recent ghc for bootstrapping than
> ghc-6.4.

Thanks for the report; building with GHC 6.4 should work now.


Thanks
Ian