small improvement to roles mechanism

[Carter Schonwald]

Mark, quite the opposite (sorry for any ambiguity)

7.6.3 is HOSED (BROKEN) / won't work correctly with OS X 10.9 and/or xcode
5 out of the box.  Theres many many work arounds, but nothing we can bake
in robustly (i think... i could be wrong on that)

Darin Morrison is working on some patches and testing them on both 7.6 and
HEAD, but its a PATCHED 7.6.3 (ie and unofficial 7.6.4), not standard 7.6.

so the choice for Haskell platform on that mac would be a patched
"7.6.3+newpatches" or 7.8.
  7.6.3 won't work (unless some special script like  a variant of
https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts/blob/master/clang-xcode5-wrapper.hsis
used to wrap calls to gcc/clang)


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Mark Lentczner
<mark.lentczner at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello there all! Sorry I've been completely out of touch(*).
>
> If I have any hope of keeping Haskell Platform on track... or even slip by
> just a few weeks (say, no later than end of November)... then it seems
> impossible that GHC 7.8 would make a good candidate for the next HP release.
>
> Do I read Bryan's post correctly, that 20% of packages on hackage fail to
> compile with GHC 7.8?
>
> And, if I read Carter correctly, a GHC 7.6 based HP is compatible with the
> next OS X (or at least Xcode 5)... then we're in troubled waters and need
> to decide how to proceed.
>
> ? Mark
>
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