ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Ian Lynagh:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:57:40PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
>> 
>> The RC unfortunately doesn't build on Lion (OS X 10.7).
> 
> I've put the latest 7.2 source here, along with OS X builds:
>    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.2.1-rc2/
> 
> My guess is that the bindists will work on Lion, but that the installers
> will use the wrong gcc.

I tested the 64-bit bindists and compiled the source from scratch on Lion.  It all works.  You are right that the bindists use the default gcc (i.e., the one with the LLVM backend).  That is ok, though, as GHC supplies the stack unwinding linker option.

When compiling the source, the build system picks gcc-4.2 (as it should, otherwise the RTS wouldn't compile).

I still think that the bindists should use gcc-4.2 as well.  However, that's nothing that should hold up the 7.2.1 release.

Cheers,
Manuel