ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 21.12.2011, 18:29 +0000 schrieb Ian Lynagh:
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!

the build system seems to be quite confused on arch/os-combinations
besides {i386,amd64}/linux. All these worked fine with 7.2.2:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ghc&suite=experimental

ghc-stage1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.4.0.20111219 for x86_64-unknown-kfreebsdgnu):
	Don't know if OSUnknown is elf

ghc-stage1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.4.0.20111219 for i386-unknown-kfreebsdgnu):
	Don't know if OSUnknown is elf

ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.4.0.20111219 for powerpc-unknown-linux):
	Cant do annotations without GHCi
    {libraries/vector/Data/Vector/Fusion/Stream/Monadic.hs:104:19-33}
    base:GHC.Exts.ForceSpecConstr{d rbL}

ghc-stage1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.4.0.20111219 for s390-ibm-linux):
	Don't know if ArchUnknown is 32bit

ghc-stage1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.4.0.20111219 for s390x-ibm-linux):
	Don't know if ArchUnknown is 32bit

ghc-stage1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.4.0.20111219 for sparc-unknown-linux):
	pprGlobalReg: Unsupported register: CCCS

Do you think you can fix these for the next release release candidate?

About the powerpc problem: GHCi has been broken on powerpc for quite
some time, so we disabled it:
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/ghc/7.4.0.20111219-1/no_ghci_on_powerpc
Maybe you also want to do that in your config.mk.in.

I guess the build failure above will go away with the next release
candidate, as vector was included by accident?

Greetings and thanks,
Joachim


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