Hi Kazu, Yes, I'll test Christiaan's patch and try to get it in today.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Kazu Yamamoto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > For Mac, we should verify darchon's Cabal patch for dynamic linking in > #8266. darchon's patch does not works well in my Mavericks. > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8266 > > If you guys are Mac users, please test darchon's patch. > > > Also, a problem exists in FreeBSD: > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8451 > > I lost my FreeBSD environment, so I cannot help fixing #8451 at this > moment. > > --Kazu > >> Hello all, >> >> I apologize for the lack of updates recently. I'm well aware people >> are a bit ready to move on, so the good news is we should be able to >> do so shortly. >> >> Simon and I talked last week, and for the RC to go ahead, we've >> decided to punt a few tickets for the moment. The biggest hurdle is >> dynamic support on Windows, which we've decided to punt. >> >> I have put together a page detailing the current status with some more >> detail about what's going on: >> >> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8 >> >> I spent a lot of time testing my (just merged) branch on several machines. >> >> The highlights for interested parties: >> >> * OS X looks pretty good across the board, minus a `./validate` bug I >> need to track down on Mavericks. 10.8 still needs to be tested (this >> will hopefully happen soon.) Otherwise it seems to be fine. >> * With the dynamic stuff punted, Windows looks pretty good right now >> too. There is some minor testsuite fallout I need to investigate. One >> of Herbert's patches broke the 64bit windows build, and I'm bisecting >> it. Then I'll test a win64 bootstrap. >> * Linux, as usual, seems just fine, and I just need to finish the >> i386 bootstrap. >> * I need to update some performance numbers. >> >> There is one final bug to fix, #7602, which is a performance >> regression for OS X, but I'm investigating the `./validate` bug on >> Mavericks first. >> >> Once these look green across the board, I speculate I'll begin to make >> the RC. I expect this to happen ASAP (within the week.) >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant >> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
