ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.3 Release Candidate 1

Andy Stewart lazycat.manatee at gmail.com
Thu May 27 10:50:25 EDT 2010


Hi Christian,

Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> writes:

> Axel Simon schrieb:
>> Hi Ian,
>> 
>> I can build this version on Mac OS X 10.5 and compile Gtk2Hs against it.
>> All concurrency demos work and the more complicated demos work that
>> trigger several levels of callbacks (to C and back to Haskell).
>
> 1. I could not install gtk2hs-0.11.0 under x86 Solaris.
>
> Linking /tmp/glib-0.11.025732/glib-0.11.0/dist/setup/setup ...
> Configuring glib-0.11.0...
> Preprocessing library glib-0.11.0...
> gtk2hsC2hs: Errors during expansion of binding hooks:
>
> ./System/Glib/GObject.chs:107: (column 22) [ERROR]
>   >>> Unknown identifier!
>   Cannot find a definition for `g_object_get_type' in the header file.
>
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
Looks, it's a problem that glib can't found header file.
gtk2hs find header files base on pkg-config return.

Can you run "pkg-config --cflags gobject-2.0"? 

>
> 2. under a x86 Mac with a GTK-2.14 framework I got:
>
> Linking /tmp/gtk-0.11.025922/gtk-0.11.0/dist/setup/setup ...
>
> Configuring gtk-0.11.0...
>
> setup: ./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/IconTheme.chs: invalid argument
>
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>
> gtk-0.11.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>
> ExitFailure 1
This is bug of Gtk2HsSetup.hs, has fix in darcs version.

Cheers,

  -- Andy


>
>
> The packages
>    cairo-0.11.0
>    gio-0.11.0
>    glib-0.11.0
>    pango-0.11.0
> built fine.
>
> The GTK-2.14 framework is:
> http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets/intel-mac/gtk2-framework.dmg
> and originally came from http://r.research.att.com/
>
> 3. Under linux we still have a problem with the new gtk2hs-0.11.0 version.
> http://trac.informatik.uni-bremen.de:8080/hets/ticket/794

>
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Axel
>> 
>> On May 23, 2010, at 20:42, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.12.3:
>>>
>>>    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.3-rc1/
>
> building and installing ghc-6.12.2.20100521, compiling and running our
> large hets binary (without gtk2hs) worked.
>
> Thanks Christian
>
>>>
>>> As well as the source tarball:
>>>    ghc-6.12.2.20100521-src.tar.bz2
>>> there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary
>>> distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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