ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.0.1

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:03:44PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote:
> 
> ./configure failed with:
> 
> checking for path to top of build tree... utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd: error
> while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> configure: error: cannot determine current directory
> 
> ldd utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>         libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0xb7718000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7713000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb76e9000)
>         libffi.so.5 => not found
>         libgmp.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3 (0xb7693000)
>         librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb7689000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb751e000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7745000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7503000)

Thanks for the report.

This was because ghc-pwd was built by the bootstrapping compiler. I've
fixed this in darcs now.


Thanks
Ian