ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear GHC team,

for your convenience, I have filed individual bugs about the build
errors:

Am Freitag, den 23.12.2011, 14:54 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> 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

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5733

> 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}

Should disappear when vector is not shipped with GHC, but a fix to
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4268 (ignore Annotations on
architectures without GHCi support) would be appreciated.

> 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

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5735

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

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5732

And another failure has manifested itself on mips/mipsell:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5734


Thanks,
Joachim

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