ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

[Philip Weaver]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> We are pleased to (finally!) announce the first release candidate
> for GHC 6.12.1:
>
>    http://darcs.haskell.org/~ghc/dist/6.12.1rc1/<http://darcs.haskell.org/%7Eghc/dist/6.12.1rc1/>
>
> As well as the source tarball:
>    ghc-6.12.0.20091010-src.tar.bz2
> there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary
> distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. For the Linux binary
> distributions, the "linux-n" tarballs are recommended over the "linux"
> tarballs.
>
>
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!
>
>
Thanks!  I have been eager to try out 6.12.  Unlike many of the recent
snapshots, this one built and installed fine on Mac OS X 10.6 :).

Is there an extralibs tarball that I should use with this?  I installed the
release candidate without said tarball.  First, I noticed that my old
version of cabal-install could not parse the output from
ghc-pkg-6.12.0.20091010:

cabal: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump'

Then, when I tried to build the network package manually, I got this:

Building network-2.2.1.4...
[1 of 5] Compiling Network.URI      ( Network/URI.hs,
dist/build/Network/URI.o )
[2 of 5] Compiling Network.Socket.Internal (
dist/build/Network/Socket/Internal.hs, dist/build/Network/Socket/Internal.o
)
[3 of 5] Compiling Network.Socket   ( dist/build/Network/Socket.hs,
dist/build/Network/Socket.o )

Network/Socket.hsc:1707:45:
    Not in scope: data constructor `System.Posix.Internals.Stream'

- Philip


> Thanks
> Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
>
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