Re: binary-dists for ghc-6.8.2

Christian Maeder wrote:
> 
> http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/mac/versions/ghc-6.8.2-powerpc-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
> http://www.dfki.de/sks/hets/intel-mac/versions/ghc-6.8.2-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2

these dists are updated now, with a proper (though stripped) file
hsc2hs-bin that caused problems
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1395.

> The frameworks under
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/mac_frameworks/mac_e.htm
> should do.

> The Mac binaries have been built using
> gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)
> and a patched Linker.lhs from
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1798

Also the file compiler/main/DriverPipeline.hs is (still) patched
according to http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1395

> The PPC binary still features:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1845

Both binaries have a fix for
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1980 now.
(Only the PPC dist has been rebuilt, the i386 one was only repacked)

Ian, could you replace the dists on the download page?

It's possible to overwrite an installation (and loose your later
installed packages!), but not necessary in most cases. Still use "make
install-strip" after "./configure".

Christian