ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.4 Release Candidate 1

[Andrea Vezzosi]

the bug about ^C (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3317)
doesn't look fixed to me, on amd64 linux.

saizan at astarte:~/cabal$ ~/bin/ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.3.20090628
saizan at astarte:~/cabal$ ~/bin/ghc --make foo.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( foo.hs, foo.o )
Linking foo ...
saizan at astarte:~/cabal$ ./foo
^Ca
a
b
b
^C
cat: -: Input/output error

saizan at astarte:~/cabal$

where foo.hs is the code from the ticket.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Ian Lynagh<igloo at earth.li> wrote:
>
> We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.10.4:
>
>    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.4-rc1/
>
> We have now fixed all the bugs that we intend to fix for 6.10.4, so if
> there is a bug that is important to you that hasn't been fixed in the
> release candidate, please let us know. The release notes are here:
>
>    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.4-rc1/release-6-10-4.html
>
>
> The directory above contains two source bundles:
>
>    ghc-6.10.3.20090628-src.tar.bz2
>    ghc-6.10.3.20090628-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
>
> Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package contains
> various extra packages that we normally supply with GHC - unpack the
> extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they will
> be included in the build automatically.
>
> There are also installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary
> distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later.
>
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
>
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