Changelog for ghc-ghc-compact-0.1.0.0-343.10.x86_64.rpm :

* Tue Feb 09 2021 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.10.4
* Fix a crash caused by inappropriate garbage of heap-allocated data reachable from foreign exports
* Sun Dec 20 2020 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.10.3
* More robust support for architectures with weak memory ordering guarantees (e.g. modern ARM hardware).
* GHC can now split dynamic objects to accomodate macOS\' RPATH size limitation when building large projects (#14444)
* Several correctness bugs in the new low-latency garbage collector
* Many, many other bug-fixes))
* Thu Dec 17 2020 Ondřej Súkup - disable %{ix86} build
* Wed Oct 14 2020 Ondřej Súkup - force multiversion for subpackages
* Sat Oct 03 2020 Ondřej Súkup - add --enable-unregistered to configure phase on unregistered architectures
* Sun Aug 09 2020 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.10.2
* Fixes a code generation bug resulting in incorrect code generation for foreign calls with complex arguments
* Fixes a bug causing object merging to fail when the lld linker is in use
* Introduces a workaround for a Linux kernel bug in the implementation of the timerfd mechanism
* Fixes a few specialiser regressions as well introduces a variety of miscellaneous specialiser improvements
* Fixes a potential loss of sharing due to left operator sections
* Fix bootstrapping of GHC with the LLVM backend on x86-64
* few important correctness fixes for the low-latency garbage collector.
* Sun May 31 2020 Ondřej Súkup - cleanup specfile from Leap 42 and older remrants- drop fix-unregisterised-v8.4-8.6.patch- drop fix-build-using-unregisterized-v8.4.patch
* Thu May 07 2020 Peter Simons - Update ghc to version 8.10.1. Important changes are:
* The UnliftedNewtypes extension, allowing newtypes to be wrap types of kind other than Type.
* The StandaloneKindSignatures extension, allowing explicit signatures on type constructors.
* A new, low-latency garbage collector for the oldest generation. Please refer to the compiler documentation for all details: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.10.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.10.1-notes.html
* Thu Feb 27 2020 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.8.3
* a compiler panic due to over-zealous eta reduction
* the ability to bootstrap with earlier 8.8 releases has been restored
* the directory submodule has been updated
* the process submodule has been updated
* Mon Feb 17 2020 Andreas Schwab - Increase memory limit for qemu user-space builds
* Wed Feb 05 2020 Andreas Schwab - Fix typo in last change
* Thu Jan 23 2020 Peter Trommler - use ghc-bootstrap-helpers on all archs- lower build env requirements on riscv64
* make sure we can build on smaller systems
* adjust parallelism so we don\'t hog big workers for almost a week
* many thanks to Stefan Bruens for pointing out the issue and helping with the solution
* Tue Jan 21 2020 Guillaume GARDET - Update _constraints for aarch64
* Thu Jan 16 2020 Peter Trommler - drop 0001-Fix-check-whether-GCC-supports-__atomic_-builtins.patch
* fixed upstream- drop D5212.patch
* fixed upstream- drop fix-build-using-unregisterized-v8.4.patch
* bootstrap compiler is 8.6.5 now- refresh fix-unregisterised-v8.4-8.6.patch- clean up spec file
* Thu Jan 16 2020 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.8.2
* A bug (Issue #17088) in the compacting garbage collector resulting in segmentation faults under specific circumstances. Note that this may affect user programs even if they did not explicitly request the compacting GC (using the -c RTS flag) since GHC may fallback to compacting collection during times of high memory pressure.
* A code generator bug (Issue #17334) resulting in GHC panics has been fixed.
* A typechecker bug (Issue #17112) resulting in GHC panicking on some programs has been fixed.
* A bug (Issue #16707) in the implementation of software transactional memory potentially resulting in hanging transactions has been fixed.
* A bug in the implementation of compact normal forms resulting in segmentation faults in some uses (Issue #17044) has been fixed.
* Tue Dec 31 2019 Peter Trommler - add fix-unregisterised-v8.4-8.6.patch
* fix build on s390x and riscv64
* Mon Dec 30 2019 Peter Trommler - refresh buildpath-abi-stability.patch- refresh ghc-8.0.2-Cabal-dynlibdir.patch- refresh ghc-pie.patch- enable riscv64
* Sun Dec 29 2019 Ondřej Súkup - use prebuilt alex and happy on Tumbleweed to avoid buildcycle- Don\'t require llvm in ghc-compiler for other architectures than arm
* Sat Dec 28 2019 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.8.1 -new stable release- refresh Disable-unboxed-arrays.patch- drop allow-riscv-and-riscv64-CPU.patch - merged in upstream
* Mon Sep 23 2019 Peter Trommler - add fix-build-using-unregisterized-v8.4.patch
* fixes unregisterised builds when bootstrap compiler is GHC 8.4
* fixes build on s390x
* Mon Sep 23 2019 Andreas Schwab - Enable build on riscv64- Add memory constraints for riscv64, restrict to 2 jobs- allow-riscv-and-riscv64-CPU.patch: recognize riscv64 as architecture- Apply Disable-unboxed-arrays.patch also on s390x
* Thu Apr 25 2019 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.6.5
* A build system issue where use of GCC with -flto broke configure was fixed
* Wed Mar 13 2019 Ondřej Súkup - really bump llvm5 to llvm6 requires for ghc-compiler
* Tue Mar 12 2019 Ondřej Súkup - bump llvm req to llvm6
* Wed Mar 06 2019 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.6.4
* A bug wherein changes in default method definitions would fail to trigger recompilation has been fixed
* A bug wherein plugins would fail to lookup names not in scope in the module being compiled has been fixed
* A bug where some programs involving StaticData would be rejected with either a typechecking error or internal compiler error has been fixed
* A bug where compilation on Windows can fail with linker errors referring to __chkstk_ms has been fixed
* Mon Dec 17 2018 Ondřej Súkup - use python3-Sphinx instead deprecated python-sphinx [boo#1119686]
* Sat Dec 08 2018 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.6.3
* A code generation bug resulting in segmentations faults in some programs
* bug leading to programs with deep stacks crashing when run with retainer profiling enabled
* A bug resulting in potential heap corruption during stable name allocation
* Plugins are now loaded during GHCi sessions
* Wed Nov 07 2018 Ondřej Súkup - dont require memory-constraints on older distros- dropped reproducible-tmp-names.patch
* Tue Nov 06 2018 Ondřej Súkup - update to 8.6.2
* Several compiler panics observed in GHC 8.6.1 have been fixed
* An integer overflow, resulting in some encodeFloat uses returning incorrect results, has been fixed
* A long-standing bug in the LLVM code generator, resulting in incorrect floating point evaluation, has been fixed.
* A long-standing bug exposed in GHC 8.6.1, has been fixed. This issue resulted in undefined runtime behavior with some uses of the dataToTag# primop. Note that this issue, while less likely to manifest, has existed in some form in all GHC releases prior to this release and may result in silent, incorrect evaluation.
* Mon Oct 29 2018 Guillaume GARDET - Make use of memory-constraints to avoid OOM errors
* Fri Oct 26 2018 Guillaume GARDET - Remove forced \'make -j2\' for aarch64 and %arm
* Tue Oct 09 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- add Disable-unboxed-arrays.patch
* apply on ppc64 only
* fixes ppc64 build- add D5212.patch
* fix GHCi on big endian platforms
* Tue Oct 02 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- cleanup
* remove unused conditional in configure command
* Tue Oct 02 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- update to 8.6.1- add 0001-Fix-check-whether-GCC-supports-__atomic_-builtins.patch
* fix __atomic_builtin detection
* upstream commit ce3897ff- drop add_armv6l_and_armv7l_target.patch
* fixed upstream- drop fix-ppc64le-recognition.patch
* fixed upstream- drop fix-build-using-unregisterized-v8.2.patch
* bootstrap with 8.4.3 works w/o this patch- refresh ghc-pie.patch- refresh ghc-8.0.2-Cabal-dyndir.patch- refresh buildpath-abi-stability.patch
* Sun Sep 30 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- Add fix-build-using-unregisterized-v8.2.patch
* Fix build on s390x
* Thu Sep 06 2018 mmanu84AATToutlook.de- Fix armv6 build by adding armv6l to llvm-targets:
* change add_armv7l_target.patch to add_armv6l_and_armv7l_target.patch
* Wed Jul 18 2018 psimonsAATTsuse.com- Cosmetic: replace tabs with blanks, strip trailing white space, and update copyright headers with spec-cleaner.
* Sun Jul 01 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- Fix dependencies on arm and s390x
* Sun Jun 17 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- add fix-ppc64le-recognition.patch
* recognize powerpc64le as PPC64 in cabal files
* Fri Jun 01 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- update to 8.4.3
* code generation for UnboxedSum fixed
* compatibility withe newer binutils (as)
* Cabal issue with abi-depends fixed
* Sun May 27 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- Fix build for older openSUSE- Don\'t do selfbootstrapping
* Cuts down build time roughly in half
* Fri May 18 2018 guillaume.gardetAATTopensuse.org- Fix armv7 build by adding armv7l to llvm-targets:
* add_armv7l_target.patch
* Thu Apr 26 2018 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- update to 8.4.2- drop 0001-PPC-CodeGen-fix-lwa-instruction-generation.patch
* fixed upstream- drop 0001-PPC-Implement-Atomic-operations.patch
* fixed upstream- drop 0001-Use-__atomic-intrinsics-for-atomicread-write.patch
* fixed upstream- drop D4089.patch
* fixed upstream
* Thu Apr 26 2018 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- fix BuildRequires for llvm
* Wed Apr 18 2018 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- use %license macro as used by new ghc-rpm-macros
* Mon Dec 18 2017 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- refresh ghc-pie.patch so it applies cleanly
* Sat Dec 16 2017 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- reintroduce ghc-pie.patch (pure upstreams don\'t work)
* Sat Dec 09 2017 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- update to 8.2.2- Several important correctness issues fixing potential runtime crashes- A correctness issue leading to undefined behavior in some programs making use of STMa fixed- A runtime system bug which may have manifested as a segmentation fault under low-memory conditions fixed- ghc-pkg now works correctly ihn environments with misconfigured NFS mounts- GHC can now produce position-independent executables- Significantly improved type errors- refresh reproducible-tmp-names.patch- drop ghc-pie.patch fixed upstream
* Tue Oct 31 2017 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- update to 8.2.1- improved compiler performance- reliable DWARF debugging information on x86_64 and i386- aarch64: registerised through LLVM backend (experimental)- optimized build for platforms with LLVM backend (arm, aarch64)- improved performance on NUMA systems- interface file determinism- various language improvements- update _constraints
* ppc64le builds need less memory since 8.2.1- drop support for ppc and s390- drop ghc-no-madv-free.patch fixed upstream- drop 0001-StgCmmPrim-Add-missing-write-barrier.patch- refresh buildpath-abi-stability.patch- refresh ghc-8.0.2-Cabal-dynlibdir.patch- refresh ghc-pie.patch- refresh reproducible-tmp-names.patch- refresh 0001-PPC-Implement-Atomic-operations.patch- refresh D4089.patch
* Tue Oct 17 2017 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- add D4089.patch
* fix GHCi issue on ppc64
* see Haskell Trac #11262
* Fri Sep 22 2017 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- add 0001-Use-__atomic-intrinsics-for-atomicread-write.patch
* add missing memory barriers on atomic read/write ops
* fixes upstream ticket #14244- adjust comment for patch 32
* the situation with upstream #12537 is improved but not solved. Patch 32, however, is correct. There are even more memory barriers missing elsewhere in the compiler.
* Sat Sep 16 2017 ptrommlerAATTicloud.com- add 0001-PPC-Implement-Atomic-operations.patch
* fixes parallel programs on all PowerPC platforms
* uptream ticket #12537- refresh buildpath-abi-stability.patch
* Sun May 28 2017 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- make compatible with new upstream macros- added patches for more stable abi:
* buildpath-abi-stability.patch
* reproducible-tmp-names.patch
* Sat May 06 2017 meissnerAATTsuse.com- enable for global PIE support: - the compiler is built without PIE support due to the bootstrap libraries being non-PIE using BuildIgnore: gcc-PIE - the compiler itself builds -fPIC objects all the time, which should make all ghc compiled binaries be PIE.- ghc-pie.patch: enable default -fPIC on Linux/x86_64
* Sun Jan 22 2017 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- comment for patch 100- refresh ghc-no-madv-free.patch with upstream patch
* upstream fix for Haskell Trac #12865
* Haskell Trac #12495 is a duplicate
* Sat Jan 21 2017 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- update to 8.0.2- drop patches merged by upstream:
* D2495.patch- refreshed patches:
* 0001-PPC-CodeGen-fix-lwa-instruction-generation.patch
* 0001-StgCmmPrim-Add-missing-write-barrier.patch
* ghc-no-madv-free.patch- added ghc-8.0.2-Cabal-dynlibdir.patch by Jens Petersen simplifing haskell packaging + Interface files produced by GHC should now be deterministic ( boo#998972 ) + A bug has been fixed that caused standalone derived Ix instances to fail for GADTs with exactly one constructor + Compatibility fixes recent Linux distributions.
* Fri Jan 20 2017 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- drop D2844.patch
* the patch causes more issues with parallel builds- fixes boo#1020909
* Fri Dec 16 2016 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add D2844.patch
* fix issues with parallel builds
* Fri Oct 14 2016 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- make compatible with new ghc-rpm-macros
* Wed Sep 28 2016 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- update to 8.0.1- drop patches fixed upstream:
* drop atomic-cast.patch
* drop cabal-show-detail-direct.patch
* drop 0001-link-command-line-libs-to-temp-so.patch
* drop 0001-implement-native-code-generator-for-ppc64.patch
* drop ghc.git-b29f20.patch
* drop u_terminfo_0402.patch
* drop u_Cabal_update.patch
* drop u_haskeline_update.patch
* drop 0001-Fix-misspelled-WORDS_BIGENDIAN-macro.patch
* drop D2214.patch
* drop D2225.patch- refresh 0001-StgCmmPrim-Add-missing-write-barrier.patch- refresh 0001-PPC-CodeGen-fix-lwa-instruction-generation.patch- add ghc-no-madv-free.patch to fix \"unable to decommit memory: Invalid argument\" errors GHC reports due to a misdetected MADV_FREE capability. The configure script sees the symbol define by glibc, but unfortunately this doesn\'t mean that the running kernel actually supports the feature, too. The upstream ticket https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12495 has more details. Thanks to AATTpsimons- GHC produces debug information on x86 and x86_64- aarch64 has LLVM backend (requires llvm-3.7)- native code generator for powerpc64[le] (openSUSE contribution!)- disable html doc on SLE, we don\'t have python-sphinx
* Thanks AATTmimi_vx
* Tue Sep 27 2016 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add D2495.patch
* missing memory barrier on PowerPC, ARM- add 0001-StgCmmPrim-Add-missing-write-barrier.patch
* another issing memory barrier on PowerPC, ARM- add 0001-PPC-CodeGen-fix-lwa-instruction-generation.patch
* fix bug in code generator
* fixes build of ghc-zeromq4-haskell on powerpc64[le]
* Thu Aug 18 2016 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- fix boo#994268
* Tue May 17 2016 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add D2225.patch
* backport of upstream patch accepted for ghc 8.0.1
* fix SMP primitives on all powerpc archs
* Sat May 14 2016 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add D2214.patch
* backport of upstream patch slated for ghc 8.0.2
* fix issue in code PowerPC code generator (32 bit and 64 bit)- add 0001-Fix-misspelled-WORDS_BIGENDIAN-macro.patch
* backport of upstream fix slated for ghc 8.0.2
* fix bytestring library on big-endian archs
* fix wrong results in ghc-pureMD5 and others on big-endian
* Tue Apr 19 2016 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- update haskeline to 0.7.2.3- refresh u_haskeline_update.patch
* Fix hsc2hs-related warning on ghc-8
* Fix the behavior of ctrl-W in the emacs bindings
* Point to github instead of trac
* Tue Mar 08 2016 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- update Cabal to 1.22.8.0- refresh u_Cabal_update.patch
* Distribution.Simple.Setup: remove job cap
* Check all object file suffixes for recompilation
* Move source files under \'src/\'.
* Wed Feb 17 2016 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- limit parallel jobs to two on aarch64
* aarch64 runs out of memory with too many parallel compiles
* Sun Feb 14 2016 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add missing C library dependency to terminfo devel package
* Sun Feb 07 2016 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- update haskeline to 0.7.2.2- add u_haskeline_update.patch
* canonicalize AMP instances to make the code more future proof
* Generalize constraints for InputT instances
* Bump upper bounds on base and transformers
* Make Haskeline `-Wtabs` clean
* Tue Jan 26 2016 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- update Cabal to 1.22.7.0- refresh u_Cabal_update.patch
* Backport #3012 to the 1.22 branch
* Add foldl\' import
* The Cabal part for fully gcc-like response files
* Tue Jan 05 2016 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- update tarball to 7.10.3b
* some documentation files were missing in the original 7.10.3 tarball- add 0001-link-command-line-libs-to-temp-so.patch
* fix panic in GHCi when linking against C library specified as command line argument (-l)
* currently under upstream review
* fix Haskell trac #10458
* Mon Dec 28 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- update Cabal to 1.22.6.0- add u_Cabal_update.patch -- update of Cabal
* Relax upper bound to allow upcoming binary-0.8
* Mon Dec 21 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- update terminfo to 0.4.0.2- drop remove-cur_term-usage.patch - merged by upstream- add u_terminfo_0402.patch -- update of terminfo
* Mon Dec 07 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- update Cabal to 1.22.5.0
* Don\'t recompile C sources unless needed
* Support Haddock response files.
* Add frameworks when linking a dynamic library.
* Tue Dec 01 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- use upstream variant of remove-cur_term-usage.patch
* Tue Oct 06 2015 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- update to 7.10.3- add cabal-show-detail-direct.patch -- Fix testsuites with large output. Debian patch. Thanks Joachim for suggesting it in Haskell #10870!- add ghc.git-b29f20.patch
* fixes upstream #7830
* fix ghc 7.10.2 failing to bootstrap ghc head on ppc and perhaps ppc64 with some optimizations enabled
* backport of my patch for upcoming ghc 8.0.1
* Mon Oct 05 2015 schwabAATTsuse.de- atomic-cast.patch: fix signature of atomic bultins- ghc-7.8-arm-use-ld-gold.patch: remove obsolete patch
* Sat Oct 03 2015 sbahlingAATTsuse.com- Remove ncurses6.patch - it\'s not so easy ;)- Add remove-cur_term-usage.patch to remove the need to access the cur_term global which isn\'t available in the openSUSE ncurses6 build.
* Sat Oct 03 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- Add choice for libffi in openSUSE:Leap:42.1
* Sun Sep 20 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- remove llvm from requires- add ncurses6.patch to fix build with ncurses6, all thanks goes to Tomas Cech sleep_walkerAATTopensuse.org
* Mon Aug 10 2015 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- update to 7.10.2
* type checker fixes
* fixes for Aarch64 support
* fix deadlock in runtime system when scheduling garbage collection- 7.10.1 highlights
* implement Applicative Monad Proposal
* implement Burning Bridges Proposal
* support for partial type signatures
* reimplement integer-gmp
* support plugins in type checker (experimental!)- drop llvm-powerpc64-datalayout.patch
* this patch was incomplete all along and now we have our native code generator- drop ghc-cabal-unversion-docdir.patch
* ghc-rpm-macros is following ghc\'s doc layout so no need to patch- drop D349.patch
* fixed upstream- drop integer-gmp.patch
* we do not support SLE11 anymore- drop ghc-7.8.2-cgen-constify.patch
* fixed upstream- drop D560.patch
* fixed upstream- drop ghc-glibc-2.20_BSD_SOURCE.patch
* fixed upstream- drop ghc-arm64.patch
* fixed upstream- drop ghc-config.mk.in-Enable-SMP-and-GHCi-support-for-Aarch64.patch
* fixed upstream- refresh 0001-implement-native-code-generator-for-ppc64.patch- disable ghc-7.8-arm-use-ld-gold.patch
* not sure we need this, must be rebased if we do
* Fri Jul 17 2015 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add ghc-config.mk.in-Enable-SMP-and-GHCi-support-for-Aarch64.patch
* enable SMP and GHCi on Aarch64- add ghc-7.8-arm-use-ld-gold.patch
* Aarch64 needs gold linker
* Fri May 29 2015 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- refresh ghc-arm64.patch- unconditionally apply ghc-arm64.patch
* Thu May 28 2015 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add backport of powerpc64le native code generator to 0001-implement-native-code-generator-for-ppc64.patch- refresh D349.patch
* Thu May 28 2015 roAATTsuse.de- on s390/s390x use \"make -j2\" to stabilize abi hashes (see also redhat bug 1212374)
* Tue May 26 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- disable llvm on arm64
* Thu May 21 2015 roAATTsuse.de- re-diffed ghc-arm64.patch
* Thu May 21 2015 roAATTsuse.de- add ghc-arm64.patch for aarch64- add aarch64, s390, s390x to ExclusiveArch
* Tue Apr 14 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- remove unneeded conditions
* Mon Apr 13 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- chnage constraints to 12G for disk and 4G for ram
* Sun Mar 15 2015 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add ghc-glibc-2.20_BSD_SOURCE.patch
* fixes build on unregisterised architectures (openSUSE: ppc64le)
* Mon Feb 23 2015 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- drop ghc-cabal-unversion-docdir.patch
* ghc-rpm-macros follows upstream ghc again
* Wed Feb 04 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com+ add ghc-glibc-2.20_BSD_SOURCE.patch from fedora- updated to 7.8.4 + removed D177.patch (in upstream) + removed D173.patch (in upstream) + removed ghc.git-e18525f.patch (in upstream) + refresh 0001-implement-native-code-generator-for-ppc64.patch
* A critical bug in the LLVM backend which would cause the compiler to generate incorrect code has been fixed (issue #9439).
* Several bugs in the code generator have been fixed for unregisterised platforms, such as 64bit PowerPC (issue #8819 and #8849).
* A bug that could cause GHC\'s constructor specialization pass (enabled by default at -O2, or via -fspec-constr) to loop forever and consume large amounts of memory has been fixed (issue #8960).
* A bug that would cause GHC to fail when attempting to determine GCC\'s version information in non-english locales has been fixed (issue #8825).
* A minor bug that allowed GHC to seemingly import (but not use) private data constructors has been fixed (issue #9006).
* A bug in the register allocator which would cause GHC to crash during compilation has been fixed (issue #9303).
* A bug that caused the compiler to panic on some input C-- code has been fixed (issue #9329).
* A few various minor deadlocks in the runtime system when using forkProcess have been fixed.
* A bug which made blocked STM transactions non-interruptible has been fixed (issue #9379).
* A bug in the compiler which broke pattern synonym imports across modules in Haddock has been fixed (issue #9417).
* A minor bug in the code generator in which the popCnt16# did not zero-extend its result has been fixed (issue #9435).
* A bug which caused the compiler to panic on pattern synonyms inside a class declaration has been fixed (issue #9705).
* A bug in the typechecker revolving around un-saturated type family applications has been fixed (issue #9433).
* Several bugs have been fixed causing problems with building GHC on ARM (issues #8951, #9620, #9336, and #9552).
* A bug in the typechecker that could cause an infinite loop when using superclasses in a cycle has been fixed (issue #9415).
* A bug causing corruption in signal handling with the single-threaded runtime system has been fixed (issue #9817).
* A bug that could cause compiled programs to crash due to use of overlapping type families has been fixed (issue #9371).
* A bug in the inliner that caused certain expressions within unboxed tuples to not be properly evaluated has been fixed (issue #9390).
* A bug that caused the compiler to not always properly detect LLVM tools (particularly on Windows) has been fixed (issue #7143).
* A bug that prevented GHC from deriving Generic1 instances for data families has been fixed (#9563).
* A bug that caused type inference to infer the incorrect type in the presence of certain type families and constraints has been fixed (issue #9316).
* Tue Feb 03 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- add constraints file
* Tue Feb 03 2015 mimi.vxAATTgmail.com- remove dblatex dependency
* Mon Jan 12 2015 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add patch 0001-implement-native-code-generator-for-ppc64.patch
* native code generation improved compilation speed
* fewer errors in testsuite than with C back end
* Sat Dec 13 2014 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add patch D560.patch
* fixes dynamic linking on ppc
* see https://phabricator.haskell.org/D560
* this is a back port of the upstream patch
* Wed Nov 05 2014 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add patch D349.patch
* fix a crash with dynamic linking in GHCi when accessing the process environment
* our patch has been submitted upstream
* see https://phabricator.haskell.org/D349
* Sun Sep 28 2014 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- ghc-rpm-macros use internal dependency generator now
* simplifies spec file
* Sat Sep 20 2014 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- fix alternatives handling
* Fri Sep 19 2014 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- update to 7.8.3
* needed for Haskell Platfoerm 2014.2.0.0
* fixes bnc #726744
* way smaller source tarball (windows binaries removed)
* dynamic libraries, GHCi, and Template Haskell for ppc64 and ppc64le- drop ghc-ppc64le.patch (fixed upstream)- add integer-gmp.patch
* build bundled libgmp on SLE 11 (system version is too old)
* fixes build on x86_64
* see upstream trac #8156- add ghc-7.8.2-cgen-constify.patch
* C backend (ppc64, ppc64le): generate \'const\' strings
* reduce size of table of contents (TOC)- add D173.patch
* fix C backend: generate literals of correct size
* fixes lots of arithmetic failures and trac #8849
* asked upstream to merge fix into 7.8.4- add D177.patch
* pass PIC flags to assembler
* shared libraries on ppc still broken (trac #8024)- add ghc.git-e18525f.patch
* fix C backend: generate functions for cmm primitives- drop ghc-use-system-libffi.patch (included upstream)- drop ghc-suse-as-needed.patch (fixed upstream)- drop Cabal-fix-dynamic-exec-for-TH.patch (fixed upstream)- drop ghc-7.6.3-LlvmCodeGen-no-3.3-warning.patch (fixed upstream)- drop ghc-avoid-empty-llvm-used-definitions.patch (fixed upstream)- drop 0001-Fix-detection-of-library-for-shm-on-openSUSE.patch
* our patch was included upstream- drop 0001-Delete-spurious-comma-in-configure.ac.patch
* our patch was included upstream-drop ghc-fix-infinite-loop-big-endian.patch (fixed upstream- refresh llvm-powerpc64-datalayout.patch
* port to new LLVM backend- refresh ghc-cabal-unversion-docdir.patch
* include original Fedora patch for 7.8.2
* Tue Sep 16 2014 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- bootstrap from ghc-bootstrap not ghc
* remove BR loop ghc->ghc
* Thu Jul 31 2014 dimstarAATTopensuse.org- Rename rpmlintrc to %{name}-rpmlintrc. Follow the packaging guidelines.
* Sat May 10 2014 dvaleevAATTsuse.com- Enable ppc64le (ghc-ppc64le.patch)
* Mon Dec 16 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- use correct setting for unregisterised builds (ppc64)- simplify build setup (generation of mk/build.mk)
* Mon Dec 16 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- don\'t BR llvm for now- dblatex broken on older openSUSE
* Sun Dec 15 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- revert LLVM for ppc64 (segfaults during package install)- fix setting up build.mk- build perf for all archs
* Sat Dec 14 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Add llvm-powerpc64-datalayout.patch
* fix LLVM backend for powerpc64- build and test LLVM backend on powerpc64
* Fri Dec 13 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Add cabal-unversion-docdir.patch
* ghc-rpm-macros don\'t include versions in package docdirs starting with version 1.0- use standard docdir for ghc- package pdf and ps manuals
* Mon Oct 28 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Add ghc-fix-infinite-loop-big-endian.patch: Fix Haskell trac [#8134] on ppc64.- Enable threaded runtime on ppc64
* Tue Sep 24 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Add 0001-Fix-detection-of-library-for-shm-on-openSUSE.patch: Fix broken autoconf test for shm_
* and librt. Haskell trac #8350- Add 0001-Delete-spurious-comma-in-configure.ac.patch: Fix test for setitimer. Haskell trac #8352
* Tue Sep 24 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- set up build.mk with configuration for ppc64
* explicitly disable features that are not supported on ppc64
* Mon Sep 23 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add BR binutils-devel for bfd.h and libiberty
* Mon Sep 23 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add BR libelf-devel for nlist.h
* Tue Sep 10 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Patches for llvm 3.3.
* Add ghc-7.6.3-LlvmCodeGen-no-3.3-warning.patch: Silence warning about llvm too new
* Add ghc-avoid-empty-llvm-used-definitions.patch: Fix llvm code generator. Backported patch for ghc 7.7 (cf Haskell trac #7996)- explicitly configure gcc location in bootstrap builds too- allow ppc builds (ppc64 build gets stuck)
* Fri Sep 06 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- include BuildFlavour definitions in build.mk
* Tue Sep 03 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- build optimized compiler (BuildFlavour = perf)- bring back Fedora\'s Template Haskell patch- add Haskell trac ticket number to glibc-locale comment
* Tue Jul 16 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add comment to explain why glibc-locale is required by ghc-compiler
* Fri May 17 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- glibc-locale required by ghc-pkg
* Fri May 03 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- update to 7.6.3 from upstream- part of Haskell Platform 2013.2- new languages features (polymorphic kinds, ...)- do compiler upgrade in one submit request by bootstrapping ghc if necessary and use that ghc to selfbootstrap new ghc- replaced ghc-use-system-libffi.patch with new patch for Haskell trac #5743 (add configure option to use system libffi)- drop Cabal-fix-dynamic-exec-for-TH.patch: Fixed upstream- drop ghc-6.12.1-gen_contents_index-haddock-path.patch which used system provided haddock and that causes trouble when bootstrapping- drop ghc-gen_contents_index-type-level.patch: fixed upstream- drop patch ghc-fix-undefined-openpty.patch: Fixed upstream- drop patch 0001-Add-missing-flag-for-respecting-EXTRA_LIBDIR.patch: Fixed upstream- port to new ghc-rpm-macros
* Fri Jan 11 2013 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- enable color and links in documentation
* Mon Dec 03 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- try to work around factory-auto still thinking we need to wait for BRs even when those are in a comment
* Wed Nov 28 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- help factory-auto by commenting out currently unneeded BRs
* Tue Nov 13 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- selfbootstrap ghc 7.4.2
* Mon Nov 12 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- remove binary distributions after bootstrap in Factory
* Thu Nov 08 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Update to version 7.4.2 from upstream
* Required by Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0
* Fixes for ghc and ghci
* Thu Nov 08 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add ExclusiveArch tag
* Tue Nov 06 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- generate debug packages for Factory
* Sun Oct 14 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- do not warn about metapackage ghc containing no binary
* Sat Oct 13 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- fix cyclic dependency to ghc (libraries reqire ghc-compiler)
* Fri Oct 12 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- do not override automatic dependency generation
* needs ghc-pkg which we won\'t have in Factory yet
* Fri Oct 12 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- prepare for bootstrap in Factory
* add binary distribution to spec file
* change build to use ghc provided by binary distribution
* Tue Jul 31 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- back ported two patches for Haskell trac #7062
* fix openpty undefined symbol
* fix extra libraries not on linker path
* Sat Jul 28 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- fix ghc-suse-as-needed.patch
* add --disable-new-dtags to linker flags. Adding RUNPATH to shared libraries breaks linking. To fix that ghc\'s libraries need to set their own RUNPATHs which they currently don\'t.
* fixes Haskell #7062
* Mon Jun 25 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- use ghc_lib_subpackage instead of ghc_binlib_package (ghc-rpm-macros 0.95.5.1)- add simple checks to %check section- sort BuildRequires somewhat
* Sun Jun 24 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- remove perl boot comment- rebuild after project conf fix for hscolour (keep deepseq)
* Wed Jun 20 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- enable hscolour after bootstrap
* Wed Jun 06 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- disable bootstrapping for devel:languagaes:haskell
* Wed Jun 06 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- set bootstrapping for bootstrap in devel:languages:haskell
* Mon Jun 04 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- add autoreconf required by suse as-needed patch
* Mon Jun 04 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- selfbootstraping- disable perl boot, might undo libffi patch
* Mon Jun 04 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- upgrade to 7.4.1 from upstream for Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0- drop Cabal-option-executable-dynamic.patch (fixed in upstream)- add ghc-suse-as-needed.patch- add Cabal-fix-dynamic-exec-for-TH.patch- add ghc-gen_contents_index-type-level.patch- bootstrapping
* Sun Jun 03 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- apply patch 2- use perl boot to autoreconf all subdirectories
* Mon May 28 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- added LICENSE to library and base package- should probably be ignored in rpmlintrc
* Mon May 28 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- follow Fedora packaging:- package compiler in ghc-compiler- meta package for all libraries- ghc became meta package for everything
* Sat May 26 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- deleted extra BR after project configuration fix
* Fri May 25 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- remove minimum version requirement for gmp-devel
* Sat May 19 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- don\'t pack manual page when without_manual is set
* Sat May 19 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- temporarily disable manual to work around broken texlive
* Thu May 17 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- clean up BuildRequires (one per line)- force gmp-devel >= 5 to get rid of libgmp.so.3 in Factory
* Mon Mar 12 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- enabled hscolour
* Fri Feb 03 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- selfbootstrapping
* Fri Feb 03 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- disable dependecy generator during bootstrap
* Thu Feb 02 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- bootstrap SLE11-SP1
* Mon Jan 23 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- provide ghc-compiler = %{version}
* Mon Jan 23 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- package HSffi.o on 11.3
* Sun Jan 22 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- done bootstrapping
* Sun Jan 22 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Move documentation to new place- Fix douple packaging
* Mon Jan 16 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Added haddock patch- Fixed many file packaged twice issues
* Wed Jan 04 2012 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Enabled hscolour- Prepared for libffi patch (needs fix fo bnc#711489)
* Thu Dec 29 2011 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Lowered ghc BR to 6.10
* Wed Dec 28 2011 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Added Cabal patch (required for ghc-rpm-macros)
* Wed Dec 28 2011 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- unset bootstrapping- additional BR that should not be required
* Tue Dec 27 2011 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Fixed versions and names in libraries- Fixed files section
* Thu Dec 22 2011 peter.trommlerAATTohm-hochschule.de- Start version 7.0.4