Thank you! But "ghc" has disappeared from MacPorts SW list. Only "ghc-devel" can be seen. Please look into it.
jinwoo On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Gregory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After what many would consider an unconscionable delay, I am happy to > announce > that ghc 6.8.2 is available from MacPorts. > > The ghc 6.8.2 port is available for Tiger/ppc, Tiger/intel and Leopard/ > intel. Users with > Leopard/ppc are out of luck until for now, for reason discussed > earlier on this list. > > In partial recompense for their patience, users will get a ghc with > more patches > than any previous MacPorts ghc. > > A few notes: > > The file locking bugs #1992 and #2134 are fixed. Bug #1992 was a > simple > lock logic error and should be killed dead. Bug #2134 was the > result > of a lazy readFile > holding a lock for an unpredictable time. There may be more cases > like this one, > and I would appreciate a note from anyone who come across a lock > error during building. > > Users on Leopard/intel must upgrade to 10.5.2 to avoid an OS bug > which under > unusual circumstances would repeatably (and mysteriously) crash the > build. > This was first noticed running the building in an eshell under > Aquamacs. Archives > were built without tables of contents because ranlib wasn't being > run > or wasn't > running to completion. Builds in the usual Terminal.app didn't > trip > over this bug. > > OpenGL support is built by default. It can be turned off using the > no_opengl variant. > > OpenAL support is disabled. Apple's OpenAL framework lacks ALUT > support (needed > for the ghc binding) but has name clashes with the freealut library > from the OpenAL.org > website. Fixing this is probably straightforward. If someone is > interested, I can give > them some pointers on getting started. > > MacPort's ghc ought to always link with the correct libgmp (the one > provided by the gmp port). > > > The latest versions of alex, happy, haddock and hs-Edison are also > available. > > > Best Wishes, > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > -- Jinwoo Lee Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
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