ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.1

[Simon Marlow]

On 14/12/09 21:16, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> Am Montag 14 Dezember 2009 14:36:14 schrieb Ian Lynagh:
>>     ==============================================================
>>      The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.12.1
>>     ==============================================================
>
> Hooray! Built from source on
> $ uname -a
> Linux linux-mkk1 2.6.27.39-0.2-pae #1 SMP 2009-11-23 12:57:38 +0100 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> (openSuse 11.1)
>
> Running the testsuit gave
>
> OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Mo 14. Dez 18:06:00 CET 2009
>      2352 total tests, which gave rise to
>     13034 test cases, of which
>         0 caused framework failures
>      2760 were skipped
>
>      9471 expected passes
>       328 expected failures
>         0 unexpected passes
>       475 unexpected failures
>
> Is that good or bad?
> Almost all unexpected failures are with threaded1, the vast majority of them due to
>
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/binutils-2.19/build-dir/bfd/../../bfd/compress.c:96:0:
>       undefined reference to `inflateInit_'

Please submit a bug report.  Presumably we need a configure test for -lz 
somewhere.

Cheers,
	Simon