Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.6.2 Release Candidate 1

2013-01-29 Thread Jens Petersen
Sorry rather late follow up: On 10 December 2012 06:39, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.6.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.6.2-rc1/ BTW the ghc-7.6 source tarballs are huge: does

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.6.2 Release Candidate 1

2013-01-29 Thread 山本和彦
Hi Ian, Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! A good news is that GHC 7.6.2 can be compiled on FreeBSD 9.1. But this problem exists: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7592 Typing gmake -j10 again completes the building. A

Re: Extended periods of waking up thread %d on cap %d

2013-01-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com writes: So I think we could adopt a similar policy for STM. The mutex is lockTSO()/unlockTSO(), which is already taken in STM.c:unpark_tso(). To indicate that a thread has already been sent a wakeup message, we could set tso-block_info.closure to a special

ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.2

2013-01-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.6.2 = The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC, 7.6.2. This release fixes a

Re: Validate of GHC HEAD freezes on FreeBSD

2013-01-29 Thread Páli Gábor János
Hello, On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp wrote: I tested this GHC 4.6/GHC 4.7 to make GHC and GNU make 3.81/3.82. But nothing changed. Does nobody execute the validate script on FreeBSD before? I have been running builder clients for both the FreeBSD head [1,2]

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2013-01-29 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, I was just doing some work with Template Haskell and I noticed that the AST does not have support for record puns and wild-cards. I know that these could be desugared into ordinary record patterns but I think that it would be more convenient for users (and also more consistent with the

Proposal to extend FieldPat in Template Haskell

2013-01-29 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, (sorry for the repost, I forgot to add a subject.) I was just doing some work with Template Haskell and I noticed that the AST does not have support for record puns and wild-cards. I know that these could be desugared into ordinary record patterns but I think that it would be more

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.6.2 Release Candidate 1

2013-01-29 Thread Jens Petersen
http://petersen.fedorapeople.org/ghc-7.6/ghc-7.6.1.20121207-10.1.fc19.src.rpm Also successfully did a test build on Fedora Rawhide ARM: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=140431 Jens ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.6.2 Release Candidate 1

2013-01-29 Thread Jens Petersen
Also successfully did a test build on Fedora Rawhide ARM: Sorry, the correct url is: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1404311 (this build is against ghc-7.4.2 btw). ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list

Re: Validate of GHC HEAD freezes on FreeBSD

2013-01-29 Thread 山本和彦
Hi Páli, On a related note, I have just (about a month ago) switched to GCC 4.6 for the GHC maintained in the FreeBSD Ports Collection (7.4.2, as part of the Haskell Platform), and I did not experience any problem with it, I am currently using it on my netbook, together with numerous ports I