ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

[Jens Petersen]

On 3 August 2011 19:01, Jens Petersen <juhp at community.haskell.org> wrote:
> Thanks!  I have done a test build in Fedora's buildsystem:
> (Note this is a "bootstrap" build without shared libraries.)

Ok I did a more normal build today with shared libs and ran the testsuite too:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3251246

The test results for x86_64 are: "0 unexpected failures" :-)
but there are "17 unexpected failures" for i686:

Unexpected failures:
   ffi/should_run  1679 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  2469 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  2594 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  4038 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  4221 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  fed001 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  ffi006 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  ffi007 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  ffi008 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  ffi011 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  ffi013 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  ffi014 [bad exit code] (threaded1)
   ffi/should_run  ffi019 [bad exit code] (normal)
   ffi/should_run  ffi020 [bad exit code] (normal)
   rts             4850 [bad stdout] (normal)
   rts             5250 [bad exit code] (normal)
   rts             T4059 [bad exit code] (normal)

from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3251249&name=build.log .
Note the Fedora build is patched to use system libffi.

The packages can be downloaded and installed as described in the
previous mail from
 http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/scratch/petersen/task_3251246

Jens