ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.2 Release Candidate 1

[Lennart Kolmodin]

Ian Lynagh wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.10.2:
> 
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.2-rc1/
> 
> This includes two source bundles:
> 
>     ghc-6.10.1.20090314-src.tar.bz2
>     ghc-6.10.1.20090314-src-extralibs.tar.bz2

Awesome!

This release candidate is also available for testing purposes through
the gentoo haskell overlay. http://code.haskell.org/gentoo/gentoo-haskell/

You can use the overlay either through layman (overlay called haskell)
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
or by yourself a la old school, PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf.

We don't yet have any ebuilds for the extralibs.

GHC is hard masked, meaning only available for testing purposes, use
caution :)

 $ echo dev-lang/ghc >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

It's also keyworded ~amd64 ~x86, meaning you'll have to allow
potentially unstable packages:

 $ echo dev-lang/ghc >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

Last but not least, the ebuild does not provide any bootstrapping binary
to compile ghc, so you need to already have a version of ghc installed
to bootstrap with. Then emerge with

 $ USE="ghcbootstrap -binary" emerge dev-lang/ghc

Please report any issues in #gentoo-haskell @ freenode.

Cheers,
  Lennart Kolmodin -- Gentoo Dev