Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

2015-11-04 Thread Carter Schonwald
i'm seeing that problem on my mac too. the RC is busted for mac :(, unbuildable even On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Peter Trommler wrote: > Sent from the wrong account the first time around. > > > On 04.11.2015, at 17:18, Richard Eisenberg wrote: > > > >

Re: Questions on the RTS C API regarding threads and tasks

2015-11-04 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Excerpts from Nicola Gigante's message of 2015-11-04 11:12:39 -0800: > I’ve started delving into the ghc runtime API to understand > if everything we need is exposed to the world or if we > have to modify the runtime itself (which I would avoid if possible). I agree with this goal in principle,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

2015-11-04 Thread Peter Trommler
I created #11061. Peter > On 05.11.2015, at 01:41, Carter Schonwald wrote: > > i'm seeing that problem on my mac too. the RC is busted for mac :(, > unbuildable even > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Peter Trommler wrote: > Sent from the wrong

Re: Questions on the RTS C API regarding threads and tasks

2015-11-04 Thread Nicola Gigante
Il giorno 05 nov 2015, alle ore 05:27, Edward Z. Yang ha scritto: > > Excerpts from Nicola Gigante's message of 2015-11-04 11:12:39 -0800: >> I’ve started delving into the ghc runtime API to understand >> if everything we need is exposed to the world or if we >> have to modify

Questions on the RTS C API regarding threads and tasks

2015-11-04 Thread Nicola Gigante
Hi everybody, I’m new on this list, congratulations to everyone for the great work that you’re doing on GHC! I apologize if this is not the right list where to ask the following questions. Please point me to the correct list or IRC channel otherwise. I’m part of a small group of people who is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

2015-11-04 Thread Richard Eisenberg
On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Peter Trommler wrote: > It looks like a bug to me. I'm taking your "it" here to mean the fact that GHC is looking for readelf on a Mac OS platform. I tend to agree -- I was surprised to see this, but I'm almost-totally clueless

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

2015-11-04 Thread Peter Trommler
Sent from the wrong account the first time around. > On 04.11.2015, at 17:18, Richard Eisenberg wrote: > > > On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Peter Trommler > wrote: > >> It looks like a bug to me. > > I'm taking your "it" here to mean the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

2015-11-04 Thread Richard Eisenberg
I can't build 7.10.3 RC1 because I don't have readelf. ./configure says this: > checking for readelf... no > configure: error: cannot find readelf in your PATH A (very) quick search has turned up no help. I'm worried that my problem is that I'm still running Mac OS 10.8.5 (Snow Leopard? I never

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

2015-11-04 Thread Oleg Grenrus
Travis has whitelisted hvr/ppa ghc-7.10.3 package. Please update your travis build matrices! Let’s make travis do its job! Cheers, Oleg > On 02 Nov 2015, at 18:03, Ben Gamari wrote: > > > We are pleased to announce the first (and hopefully only) release > candidate for