Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

Hi Greg,

I used 6.8.1 as bootstrap. I have a 6.6.1 so I'll try again with it.  
But it is good news to know that it is building on your Mac. Now I  
have more hope 

Thanks,
Christophe.

>
> Hi Christophe,
>
> On Dec 23, 2007, at 11:02 AM, alpheccar wrote:
>
>> Was someone able to build ghc 6.8.2 on PPC with OS X 10.4 (Tiger) ?
>> I had no problems to build the 6.8.1 but with 6.8.2, I get the error:
>>
> I was able to build 6.8.2 three times on PPC/Tiger (10.4.11)  
> without error
> using 6.6.1 as a boostrap compiler.  What are you using to compile  
> 6.8.2?
>
>> ../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -package-name base-3.0.1.0 -hide- 
>> all-packages -split-objs -i -idist/build/autogen -idist/build -i. - 
>> Idist/build -Iinclude -#include "HsBase.h" -odir dist/build -hidir  
>> dist/build -stubdir dist/build -package rts-1.0 -O -fglasgow-exts - 
>> package-name base -XCPP -idist/build  -H16m -O -O -Rghc-timing - 
>> fgenerics -c Data/Generics/Twins.hs -o dist/build/Data/Generics/ 
>> Twins.o  -ohi dist/build/Data/Generics/Twins.hi
>> ghc-6.8.2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>>  (GHC version 6.8.2 for powerpc-apple-darwin):
>>        lookupVers1 base:GHC.Prim sym{tc}
>>
>> Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ 
>> reportabug
>>
>
> Best Wishes,
> Greg
>