ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.1

[Jens Petersen]

On 7 September 2012 01:05, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:
> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1.

Thanks!  I have done a full test build for Fedora 18 Development on x86_64
which you can install from my new testing repo:

<http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/petersen/ghc/>

It seems to work fine on fedora 17 too for me.
Official Fedora builds probably won't appear in Rawhide
until a draft/testing Haskell Platform is ready, maybe next month?

(The bootstrap build used to build it, also includes 32bit and can be
downloaded from:
<http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/scratch/petersen/task_4462240>)

A bootstrap build [2] for Fedora ARM using llvm-3.1 is available and
can be downloaded from
<http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/petersen/task_1123704/>
(Note that ghc-7.4.1 at least does not build with ghc-patched llvm-3.1.)

(The Koji scratch builds should remain available for 2 weeks from building.)

>   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html

It would be nice if the TODO placeholders for library version changes
could be filled in and a note added about the removal of
extensible-exceptions.

Thank you!

Jens

[1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4462240
[2] http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1123704