ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.12.3

[Simon Marlow]

On 14/06/2010 17:00, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've successfully compiled ghc-6.12.3 under x86 solaris.
>
> However, for the testsuite I had to add '-lz' to the threaded1 entry of
> config.way_flags in file testsuite/config/ghc:
>
>          'threaded1'  : ['-lz', '-threaded', '-debug'],
>
> Otherwise I got many link failures of the kind:
>
> Compile failed (status 256) errors were:
> Undefiniertes                   erstmals referenziert
>   Symbol                             in Datei
> inflate                             /opt/csw/lib/libbfd.a(compress.o)
> inflateEnd                          /opt/csw/lib/libbfd.a(compress.o)
> inflateInit_                        /opt/csw/lib/libbfd.a(compress.o)
> inflateReset                        /opt/csw/lib/libbfd.a(compress.o)
> ld: Schwerer Fehler: Symbolreferenzierungsfehler. Keine Ausgabe in
> tcrun001 geschrieben
>
> *** unexpected failure for tcrun001(threaded1)

See:

   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3756

the conclusion was we need to add something to the configure script.  If 
you could help us out that would be great.

Cheers,
	Simon



> Cheers Christian
>
> Ian Lynagh schrieb:
>>     ==============================================================
>>      The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.12.3
>>     ==============================================================
>>
>> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC.
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