GHC team update 39 (#100)

* GHC team update 39

* Update 2024-12-19-ghc-update-39.md

* Update 2024-12-19-ghc-update-39.md

add links for 9.6.7 release

* Update 2024-12-19-ghc-update-39.md

* Update 2024-12-19-ghc-update-39.md

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Co-authored-by: Luite Stegeman <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jeffrey Young <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

blog/2024-12-19-ghc-update-39.md

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+slug: 2024-12-19-ghc-update
+title: "IOG GHC Update #39"
+authors: [sylvain,doyougnu,luite]
+tags: [ghc,ghc-update]
+---
+
+Triweekly update from the GHC DevX team at IOG.
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+Previous updates can be found [here](https://engineering.iog.io/tags/ghc-update).
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+## High-level Summary
+
+The team has been working on the preparation of a GHC 9.6.7 release and on
+building GHC with cabal-install instead of Hadrian.
+
+## Details
+
+Luite: Is back from vacation and has been preparing the GHC 9.6.7 release. See [GHC#25559](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25559) and [GHC!13740](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13740).
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+Sylvain: worked on building GHC with cabal-install instead of Hadrian. During the process he noticed that the Cabal flags for the RTS were wrongly set on automatic. This is now fixed by [GHC!13697](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13697).
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+Sylvain: fixed the build of GHC with tables-next-to-code disabled. See [GHC#25565](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25565) and [GHC!13712](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13712)
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+Sylvain: merged `ghc-bignum` package into `ghc-internal`. See [GHC#24453](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24453) and [GHC!13688](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13688)
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+## Other
+
+Jeff: created a [GHC JS Backend matrix room](https://matrix.to/#/#ghc-js-backend:matrix.org) come chat about all things JS backend!