Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-05 Thread David Feuer
-05:00) To: Jens Petersen <juhpeter...@gmail.com>, Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> Cc: GHC developers <ghc-devs@haskell.org> Subject: Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability I'd like to run the testsuite on macOS but I am having trouble following the documentation at  https://

Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:17 PM, George Colpitts wrote: > /Users/gcolpitts/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404/libffi > I don't think you want to be in the libffi subdirectory; any test suite there would be specific to libffi and require you to follow its directions, not the

Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-05 Thread George Colpitts
I'd like to run the testsuite on macOS but I am having trouble following the documentation at https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/Running Do I need to download something in addition to the source tarball or am I making some mistake? Following is what I tried: pwd

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: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-04 Thread George Colpitts
I don't know how to produce a binary distribution but I did do a build on Mac OS 10.12.4 with XCode 8.3. It went flawlessly and subjectively seemed much faster than previous builds. I then did a cabal install of hlint and verified that hlint worked. On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:22 AM Ben Gamari

Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-04 Thread Ben Gamari
Alan & Kim Zimmerman writes: > There is no tag in the source tree, which commit has been used? > As I mention in the message, I intentionally held off on pushing the tag to avoid the need to force push in case this commit ends up being bad. The tarball was produced from

Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-04 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
$ tar xOf ghc-8.2.0.20170404-src.tar.xz ghc-8.2.0.20170404/GIT_COMMIT_ID ; echo d67f0471cd3584c5a548ff30c9023b599b598d3e On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:01 AM Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote: > There is no tag in the source tree, which commit has been used? > > Alan > > On 4 April

Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-04 Thread Alan & Kim Zimmerman
There is no tag in the source tree, which commit has been used? Alan On 4 April 2017 at 06:21, Ben Gamari wrote: > > tl;dr: If you would like to produce a binary distribution for GHC >8.2.1-rc1 then let me know, grab the source distribution and >start

GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-03 Thread Ben Gamari
tl;dr: If you would like to produce a binary distribution for GHC 8.2.1-rc1 then let me know, grab the source distribution and start building. The binary distributions will be announced one week from today. Hello GHC packagers, I am happy to announce the release of the