6.10.4 plans

[Simon Marlow]

On 08/06/2009 10:16, Christian Maeder wrote:
> When building ghc-6.10.3 I've noticed again:
>
> 1. ghc-pkg check:
>
> There are problems in package rts-1.0:
>    include-dirs: PAPI_INCLUDE_DIR doesn't exist or isn't a directory

Ian, could you merge this patch please?

Thu Apr  2 11:55:40 BST 2009  Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
   * PACKAGE_CPP_OPTS += -DPAPI_INCLUDE_DIR=""

Thanks!

> after "make binary-dist" I'm left with an unnecessary .tar file and a
> link (ghc-6.10.3 ->  .). The mere *.tar.bz2 file would do (and is big
> enough).

I fixed that in the new build system, not sure whether it's worth fixing 
in the branch at this stage.

Cheers,
	Simon


> Cheers Christian
>
> Ian Lynagh wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Unfortunately, since the release of 6.10.3, still more problems have
>> come to light in the 6.10 branch. We are therefore planning to do a
>> 6.10.4 release.
>>
>> For 6.10.4, we will only consider fixes for serious bugs that cannot be
>> easily worked around. So far, we plan to look into:
>>
>> * One of the patches in 6.10.2 introduced a problem where
>>    mkWeakForeignEnv# could segfault
>>    (already fixed)
>>
>> * readMutVar# is inlined/duplicated
>>    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3207
>>    (already fixed, patch waiting to be merged)
>>
>> * "Permission denied" errors on Windows:
>>    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3231
>>    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2924
>>
>> * Some ghci tests fail with hLookAhead errors. We would like to at least
>>    understand exactly what is going on here.
>>
>> If you find any other bugs that you think we should look into for
>> 6.10.4, please let us know.
>>
>>
>> We don't have any plans for when to do the release yet, but we would
>> like to be confident that we have waited long enough for any other bugs
>> to surface, and to have time for 6.10.4 to be well-tested.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ian
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