Re: Problem building 9.4.6 on Fedora 36 (bytestring/cbits/is-valid-utf8.c)

2023-08-15 Thread Jens Petersen
I believe 9.4.7 is coming with a fix for this On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 23:44, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 11:33:52AM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > > The build was failing, because rts/OSThreads.h via Rts.h from > > libraries/bytestring/cbits/is-valid-utf8.c had no

Re: Inquiry about Supporting RISC-V 32 in Haskell

2023-06-27 Thread Jens Petersen
Adding David fyi, who is working on riscv64 bootstrapping for Fedora On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 at 20:59, Bryan Richter via ghc-devs < ghc-devs@haskell.org> wrote: > Hello! > > I can't assist with RISC-V, but let me know if you have any trouble with > https://gitlab.haskell.org. In particular,

Re: 9.2.2 release schedule?

2022-01-31 Thread Jens Petersen
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 at 23:59, Shayne Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 1:31 PM Ben Gamari wrote: > >> Shayne Fletcher writes: >> >> > Anyone know of any scheduling plans for ghc-9.2.2? >> It should be out by mid-January. There are quite a few >> backports that we need to push through

Re: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.2 released

2022-01-23 Thread Jens Petersen
I am talking about. (I first discovered this because it broke the Fedora build - so I just remove it before building.) Jens On Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 2:31 AM Jens Petersen wrote: > >> First of all a big thank you and congratulations on the highly >> anticipated 9.0.2 release. >>

Re: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.2 released

2022-01-22 Thread Jens Petersen
First of all a big thank you and congratulations on the highly anticipated 9.0.2 release. I have been putting off this mail for a while: I actually built it last month right away in Fedora's new ghc9.0 package (available now for all current Fedora releases). Also Stackage Nightly (primarily

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.1 now available

2021-11-05 Thread Jens Petersen
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 23:54, Ben Gamari wrote: > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.2.1 > If you are on Fedora you can now install ghc-9.2.1 with: sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular module install ghc:9.2/default Cheers, Jens ___

Re: GHC and the future of Freenode

2021-05-21 Thread Jens Petersen
My vote goes for Matrix. I am not a heavy user yet, but I hope this episode helps to drive more people to it away from irc. Having half the people on Freenode and the other half on Libera seems the worst possible outcome in the short- to mid-term. The Fedora project also has plans to move to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.10.4 released

2021-02-10 Thread Jens Petersen
On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 00:17, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.4. > Thank you! This is now already built for Fedora and can be tested/installed with: dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular module install ghc:8.10/default It should go

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.1 released

2021-02-08 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi Karel, On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 00:56, Karel Gardas wrote: > [karel@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular > install ghc:9.0/default Apologies, I thought I had tested, but I copied without the 'module' command, it should be: $ sudo dnf

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.1 released

2021-02-08 Thread Jens Petersen
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 02:04, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.0.1. > This is now testable in Fedora with: sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular install ghc:9.0/default Thanks, Jens ___

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.0.1-rc1 released

2021-01-26 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks - I forgot to follow up earlier but on Fedora you can test 9.0.1 RC1 now with: sudo dnf module install ghc:9.0/default Jens ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.0.1-alpha1 released

2020-12-06 Thread Jens Petersen
Very late followup, but I just wanted to share that Fedora users can install this now (stable since last week) with: sudo dnf module install ghc:9.0/default Thanks, Jens ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1 released

2020-05-17 Thread Jens Petersen
On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 10:18, Jens Petersen wrote: > Is it intentional that the text library in 8.10.1 is older than the one in > 8.8? > Ben pointed me at https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17956 in irc. Thanks, Jens ___ ghc-devs mai

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1 released

2020-05-16 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi, late question, I just noticed: Is it intentional that the text library in 8.10.1 is older than the one in 8.8? (1.2.3.2 vs 1.2.4.0 ) Thanks, Jens ___ ghc-devs mailing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.3 is now available

2020-02-29 Thread Jens Petersen
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 09:52, Ben Gamari wrote: > > Ben Gamari writes: > >> The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.3. > Thank you, if you are in Fedora you can now install this with: `sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular` module install ghc:8.8` Jens

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.3 is now available

2020-02-24 Thread Jens Petersen
Thank you for the release. On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 02:02, Ben Gamari wrote: > [1] > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.3/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.3-notes.html > I am getting 404 from the docs. Cheers, Jens ___ ghc-devs mailing list

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-rc1 released

2020-01-30 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks for the RC1 release! When I try to do a test build without haddocks (on Fedora), a mysterious thing happens: it still builds and installs documentation for the containers library?!? I should file a bug anyway - though I guess it is not a release blocker, just a minor annoyance I suppose.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2 is now available

2020-01-17 Thread Jens Petersen
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, 00:35 Ben Gamari, wrote: > The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.2. > Congrats I have built it already for the Fedora ghc:8.8 module stream: it should go into updates-testing-modular soon for F30, F31, and Rawhide. Thanks, Jens

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-alpha2 released

2020-01-02 Thread Jens Petersen
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 02:28, Ben Gamari wrote: > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-alpha2/ I also built this for fedora in 2 test builds (the latter for

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2-rc1 is now available

2020-01-01 Thread Jens Petersen
On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 04:11, Ben Gamari wrote: > https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.2-rc1 > Thanks! I finally got round to doing some Fedora test builds . LGTM

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1 release candidate 1 is now available

2019-07-25 Thread Jens Petersen
On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 07:35, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is pleased to announce the release candidate for GHC 8.8.1. : > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1-rc1 Thanks! I can build it successfully on Fedora Rawhide. However s390x fails as reported in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1-alpha2 is now available

2019-06-27 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks, I forgot to follow up that I updated the Fedora ghc:8.8 module stream to alpha2 for F30+. Though it fails sometimes on s390x (gcc failure). ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1-alpha2 is now available

2019-06-16 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi Ben, thanks I am not able to get https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1-alpha2/ghc-8.8.0.20190613-src.tar.xz somehow. Jens On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 03:36, Ben Gamari wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > The GHC team is pleased to announce the second and likely last alpha > release of GHC 8.8.1.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1-alpha1 is now available

2019-05-07 Thread Jens Petersen
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 07:51, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of GHC 8.8.1. I built it for Fedora 30 and Rawhide in a new ghc:8.8 Fedora module stream (builds for 28 and 29 will be forthcoming later). You should be able to install with ``` $ sudo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.5-rc1 is now available

2019-04-11 Thread Jens Petersen
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 12:54, Jens Petersen wrote: > I don't see any source tarball... Okay I see one has been uploaded, thanks. Jens ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.5-rc1 is now available

2019-04-08 Thread Jens Petersen
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 02:28, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is proud to announce the first release candidate of 8.6.5. > The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are > available at > https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.5-rc1 I don't see any source tarball...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1 released

2018-10-22 Thread Jens Petersen
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 22:36, Ben Gamari wrote: > On September 24, 2018 2:09:13 AM CDT, Jens Petersen > wrote: > >I have built 8.6.1 for Fedora 27, 28, 29, Rawhide, and EPEL7 in: > >https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/ > >The repo also inclu

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.4 released

2018-10-21 Thread Jens Petersen
More seriously ghc-8.4.4 fails to build on ARM 32bit and 64bit due to the llvm changes afaict. I opened https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15780 for this. Jens ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.4 released

2018-10-16 Thread Jens Petersen
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 07:17, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.4 Thank you > As always, the full release notes can be found in the users guide, https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.4/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.4-notes.html#base-library I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1 released

2018-09-24 Thread Jens Petersen
I have built 8.6.1 for Fedora 27, 28, 29, Rawhide, and EPEL7 in: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/ The repo also includes latest cabal-install. Thanks for the release! Jens On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 at 09:58, Ben Gamari wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > The GHC team is pleased

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-beta1 available

2018-09-11 Thread Jens Petersen
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 at 11:31, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC development team is very pleased to announce the first beta > leading up to GHC 8.6.1 release. Thank you! I have built it for Fedora and RHEL 7 in my Copr repo last week: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/ I was

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-alpha2 available

2018-07-19 Thread Jens Petersen
On 16 July 2018 at 10:07, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC development team is pleased to announce the second alpha release > leading up to GHC 8.6.1. Thanks, I built it for Fedora and EPEL7 in my Copr repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/ Jens

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-alpha1 available

2018-07-09 Thread Jens Petersen
On 1 July 2018 at 06:26, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first > alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1. I built it for Fedora in a Copr repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/ I see that xhtml library seems to have been

Re: build testsuite or not?

2018-05-30 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks, Ben for your helpful reply. Okay then I think I will disable the testsuite for most Fedora builds then. I never really look at them these days any more to be honest. Cheers, Jens On 31 May 2018 at 00:32, Ben Gamari wrote: > Jens Petersen writes: > >> Okay I have one m

build testsuite or not?

2018-05-30 Thread Jens Petersen
Okay I have one more question about my packaging of ghc for Fedora. For long I always build the testsuite for every release perf build on all archs (for an example see the build.log links on https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1086491). Is this a useful meaningful thing to do?

building ghc once or twice?

2018-05-02 Thread Jens Petersen
I have been packaging ghc for a long time... In older times I think it was recommended to first do a (quick) build of a new version of ghc (with the previous version) and then to do a (perf) rebuild of the new version against itself. In fact I am still building ghc this way for Fedora: though it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.2 released

2018-05-01 Thread Jens Petersen
I have built ghc-8.4.2 for Fedora and EPEL7 in https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.4.2/ Thanks, Jens ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1 released

2018-03-14 Thread Jens Petersen
On 9 March 2018 at 01:57, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC developers are very happy to announce the 8.4.1 release of > Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Thanks! I have built it for Fedora and EPEL7 in a copr repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.4.1/ Cheers,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-rc1 available

2018-02-27 Thread Jens Petersen
On 26 February 2018 at 02:42, Ben Gamari wrote: > https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1-rc1 I'd like to ask: what BuildFlavour are these builds? Perf or something else? Is there a build.mk file for them? (If so would it make sense to include it in the binary

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Jens Petersen
> > I know it is difficult but if ghc and haskell-platform could align > their schedules better then things might be easier to plan in the future. > Really I would like to see a HP release now *and* one after 7.8.1! :) I think HP beta releases should follow each ghc release and there can be

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Jens Petersen
On 20 January 2014 17:29, Andres Löh wrote: > (2) Simply because GHC 7.8 is itself so long delayed and so full of > new features, I think it's realistic to assume that quite a few > library glitches will appear even after it's released. Also, GHC bugs > may be found only

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 release candidate 2

2017-05-23 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks for RC2! I built it for Fedora in my Copr repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.2.1. While I haven't tested it yet, I note that the builds take rather long: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.2.1/build/555495/ A perf build with the testsuite

Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-05 Thread Jens Petersen
On 4 April 2017 at 13:21, Ben Gamari wrote: > I am happy to announce the release of the 8.2.1-rc1 source distribution > to binary packagers. > It seems to build okay for me on Fedora 26 so far. But the testsuite completely failed in timeout: see

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.2 is available!

2017-01-18 Thread Jens Petersen
On 12 January 2017 at 03:40, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is happy to at last announce the 8.0.2 release of the > Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available > Thank you Fedora 24+ and RHEL 7 et al users can install it from my Fedora Copr

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 2

2016-12-27 Thread Jens Petersen
On 23 December 2016 at 04:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is happy to announce the second candidate of the > 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. > Thanks Fedora users can install it from my Fedora Copr Repo:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

2016-11-27 Thread Jens Petersen
On 26 November 2016 at 07:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/ > Thank you, I built it for Fedora 25 (just released last week) and Rawhide: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.0.2 Hopefully there will be a build for

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

2016-11-27 Thread Jens Petersen
On 28 November 2016 at 16:37, Jens Petersen <juhpeter...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it is not being generated. > Well it might be generated, but it is not getting installed properly by default anyway. Looks like a buildsystem regression to me wrt to 8.0.1: I guess we should

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

2016-11-27 Thread Jens Petersen
On 26 November 2016 at 22:46, Ben Gamari wrote: > > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 docs/users_guide/build-man/ghc.1 > > "/usr/local/share/man/man1" > > install: /usr/local/share/man/man1/ghc.1: No such file or directory > > make[1]: *** [install_man] Error 71 > > make: ***

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 is available!

2016-05-27 Thread Jens Petersen
On 22 May 2016 at 00:18, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of the first > new super-major version of our Haskell compiler in six years, GHC 8.0.1. > Congratulations on the release! I forgot to mention I built it for Fedora and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 source tarball available

2016-05-16 Thread Jens Petersen
On 16 May 2016 at 19:27, Ben Gamari wrote: : > * the patch vendorising the alabaster theme for haddock's documentation Thanks this also affects the build for RHEL7, so it will help me. Jens ___ ghc-devs mailing list

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 3 available

2016-04-23 Thread Jens Petersen
On 19 April 2016 at 04:54, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of third release > candidate of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler's 8.0.1 release. Source and > binary distributions can be found at, > >

Re: Change in GHC release timing policy

2016-03-09 Thread Jens Petersen
> * The source release will be tagged and tarballs pushed to a staging > area > * We will soon thereafter notify the binary distribution builders and > ghc-devs@ > * Everyone will go to work on their binary distributions > * One week after the source release is tagged the release

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-29 Thread Jens Petersen
On 26 February 2016 at 02:09, Ben Gamari wrote: >> Thank you for RC2. > I'm happy to help. I think you're doing a great job. >> I finally built ghc-8.0.0 for Fedora Rawhide (quick build): >> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.0.1 >> (perf build is still

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-23 Thread Jens Petersen
On 8 February 2016 at 03:13, Ben Gamari wrote: > http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc2/ Thank you for RC2. I finally built ghc-8.0.0 for Fedora Rawhide (quick build): https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.0.1 (perf build is still ongoing). One

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1, release candidate 1

2016-02-02 Thread Jens Petersen
On 14 January 2016 at 00:43, Ben Gamari wrote: > The GHC Team is very pleased to announce the first release candidate of > the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1 release. Thanks! - I spent a little trying to build/package it for Fedora, but running in the usual problem with

Re: Dropping bzip2 release tarballs?

2016-02-01 Thread Jens Petersen
On 14 January 2016 at 01:19, Ben Gamari wrote: > tl;dr do you rely on the .bz2 release tarballs on downloads.haskell.org? I don't have a strong opinion about it and understand the desire to standardize on one archive type. I use the xz src tarballs myself, but how about

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler version 7.10.3

2015-12-09 Thread Jens Petersen
On 9 December 2015 at 21:17, Ben Gamari wrote: > We are pleased to announce the release of GHC 7.10.3 Awesome, thank you! I have build it for Fedora and RHEL/CentOS in my Fedora Copr repo: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-7.10.3 The repos also include

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 7.10.3 release candidate 3

2015-12-01 Thread Jens Petersen
On 29 November 2015 at 23:54, Ben Gamari wrote: > On that note, 7.10.3 is coming. At the moment I am blocked on getting a > Cabal release tagged but hopefully this will happen Real Soon Now(TM). Cool - Cabal-1.22.5.0 went into Stackage Nightly yesterday. :-)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 7.10.3 release candidate 2

2015-11-08 Thread Jens Petersen
I haven't looked but I note for the record that the size of the tar.xz is increasing: 10547868 Mar 30 2015 ghc-7.10.1-src.tar.xz 3204 Jul 31 15:50 ghc-7.10.2-src.tar.xz 13270576 Nov 9 13:12 ghc-7.10.2.20151105-src.tar.xz Jens On 8 November 2015 at 07:28, Ben Gamari

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.2 Release Candidate 2

2015-07-13 Thread Jens Petersen
On 3 July 2015 at 15:49, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.10.2: Thanks! I have updated my Fedora Copr 7.10.2 repo to RC2: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-7.10.2 There are builds for Fedora 22 (release)

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.2 Release Candidate 1

2015-06-15 Thread Jens Petersen
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.10.2: Thanks! https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.2-rc1 The testsuite src tarball still (like in 7.10.1) includes this large binary executable file: -rwxrwxr-x a/a 7873779 Mar 16 17:34 2015

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.2 Release Candidate 1

2015-06-15 Thread Jens Petersen
On 15 June 2015 at 09:16, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.10.2: Thank you I did a 'quick' build of it for Fedora 22 in my Copr repo: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-7.10.2 I will try to update it to a

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 3

2015-03-19 Thread Jens Petersen
On 19 March 2015 at 23:45, Karel Gardas karel.gar...@centrum.cz wrote: On 03/19/15 03:38 PM, Jens Petersen wrote: I tried building RC3 on Fedora Rawhide and hit this surprise i686 failure: are you by any chance building RC3 with RC1/2 ? If so, then this is not well supported. I already

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 3

2015-03-19 Thread Jens Petersen
On 17 March 2015 at 23:40, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: We should probably rename the tarballs however... it's clear deb7 and centos65 aren't very enlightening names; something like -glibc211-gmp4 vs glibc212-gmp5 would be better, even if slightly longer. +1 I tried building

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 2

2015-02-09 Thread Jens Petersen
On 27 January 2015 at 01:13, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.10.1: Thanks, I updated my Fedora ghc-7.10 Copr repo to RC2: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-7.10/ (The build is currently only for

Re: Build failure under Fedora 21

2015-01-25 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi Dominic, On 23 January 2015 at 03:14, Dominick Samperi djsamp...@gmail.com wrote: The best way to move beyond the somewhat dated version of the Haskell Platform that is distributed with Fedora 21 is to install the version available at http://www.haskell.org/platform instead of the version

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 1

2015-01-17 Thread Jens Petersen
On 17 January 2015 at 00:46, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: This was a result of https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9652, which Edward fixed and I'll be merging into the 7.10 branch for RC2. Thanks Austin, looks like it is already merged in current ghc-7.10 branch: I managed to

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 1

2015-01-16 Thread Jens Petersen
On 23 December 2014 at 23:36, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.10.1: Thanks! Maybe this is already fixed in git, but it seems to me that RC1 is not able to build itself? ghc-cabal: '/usr/bin/ghc-pkg' exited

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.4

2015-01-12 Thread Jens Petersen
On 23 December 2014 at 22:12, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC, 7.8.4. Thanks, I created a Fedora Copr repo with 7.8.4: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-7.8.4/ it has builds for current Fedora

Re: Problems compiling with llvm-3.5.0-2 on ARM

2014-11-06 Thread Jens Petersen
On 6 November 2014 00:49, Carter Schonwald carter.schonw...@gmail.com wrote: TL;DR, you cant use llvm 3.5 or 3.6 with any current ghc release. use 3.4 or older Can we expect 3.5 (3.6) to work with ghc-7.10? (FWIW helloworld seems to work ok with ghc-7.8.3 on x86_64, but not on ARMv7.) Or

Re: Problems compiling with llvm-3.5.0-2 on ARM

2014-11-04 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi Jarl, I think I just ran into this too for Fedora 22 rawhide on ARM and found your posts... On 30 October 2014 16:11, Jarl Gunnar Flaten jarl.fla...@gmail.com wrote: (cf. reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2kpsz5/ghc_problem_new_llvm_schedule_reentered_unsafely/ ) I

Re: GHC Weekly News - 10/24/2014

2014-10-30 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks for the Weekly News that is really useful info. On 25 October 2014 09:00, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: Note: this post is available (with full hyperlinks) at https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20141024 - This past week, a discussion sort of organically started

Re: 7.8.3 source tarball imminent

2014-07-10 Thread Jens Petersen
2014/07/10 15:51 Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.3/ Thank you! I have built it for Fedora 20 and 21 (still in development) in my Fedora copr repo: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-7.8/ It may be too late to get 7.8.3 into Fedora 21

Re: 7.8.3 release - please speak up soon.

2014-06-05 Thread Jens Petersen
On 5 June 2014 23:37, Gergely Risko gerg...@risko.hu wrote: It seems reasonable to just make terminfo, haskeline and xhtml visible to the users from the ghc included packagedb. What can possible go wrong? :) +1 I am planning to do this anyway in the Fedora package [1] and haven't

Re: GHC 7.8.3 release

2014-06-01 Thread Jens Petersen
(Sorry late response...) On 27 May 2014 17:06, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: just a general vote in favor of doing it within some X timeframe (even 'real soon' or 'a week would be great') would be nice. +1 for 7.8.3 RSN :) I am planning to import ghc-7.8 into Fedora 21 soon so

Re: 7.8.1 plan

2014-04-10 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks Austin, On 10 April 2014 10:09, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: It's probably due to https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/abb86adf7f749b3d44887d28bc96b43c5a1e0631abb86adf7f749b3d44887d28bc96b43c5a1e0631 which was merged post RC2. I base this on the fact your build is failing

Re: 7.8.1 plan

2014-04-09 Thread Jens Petersen
Ben's hack later. I am still surprised that RC2 builds fine on ARM (I re-verified that yesterday [1]) but not final 7.8.1. Were there some late ARM or linking changes that cause this now? On 04/ 9/14 10:21 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: dll-split: internal error: evacuate(static): strange closure

Re: 7.8.1 plan

2014-04-08 Thread Jens Petersen
On 8 April 2014 22:28, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: The source distribution is now available: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1/ Feel free to make builds - I'll add them as they come in and will announce soon... Thank you! It builds fine on Fedora 21 devel for x86_64 and

7.8.1 RC testsuite failures for 64bit unregisterised builds

2014-03-24 Thread Jens Petersen
(changing Subject to fork this to a separate thread) On 23 March 2014 21:42, Peter Trommler ptromm...@me.com wrote: On 23.03.2014, at 11:44, Jens Petersen peter...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Speaking of ppc64: Do you see ticket #8849 too? Does it show up in the testsuite results too? Yes

ghc-7.8.1 RC2 ppc dyn linked executable segfaults

2014-03-18 Thread Jens Petersen
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ A test build on ppc completed but then the dyn executable sanity check failed (not yet sure why): http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1707922 The ppc64 build looks okay, but ppc seems to have a problem with executables dyn

Re: RC2 release imminent

2014-03-02 Thread Jens Petersen
New source distributions are available here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ Thanks! (I would have just called it RC3:) I have done a couple of testbuilds: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6586630 (built against ghc-7.6.3) and a build in my Fedora Copr ghc-7.8

Re: RC2 release imminent

2014-02-28 Thread Jens Petersen
2014/02/27 9:14 Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ Thanks! I did a test build for Fedora Rawhide (F21 devel): http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6579613 from the txz file (this build is without testsuite and prof). I haven't had a