On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 16:27 +0200, Christian Lynbech wrote: > Has anybody had any luck getting recent versions of darcs to run under > solaris? > > The only darcs version I can find on the net is 0.9 and that is not > new enough to handle some of the patches in one of my repositories. > > I have then made a halfhearted attempt at recompiling darcs myself, > but ran into a slew of problems and the resulting binaries all > generates "Illegal instruction" errors immediately on startup (which > appears to be thread related but I haven't investigated it closely). >
I installed darcs 1.0.3 on Chalmers' Solaris 9 system a few months ago. Seems to work fine, although I'm not sure because I haven't used it much (we stopped using Solaris soon after I installed it). I could try to send you a binary, but I suspect it won't work (there's a lot of magic involved in installing things on our systems, and I don't have access to any vanilla Solaris machines to compile a new binary on). The illegal instruction errors probably have to do with having a broken version of ghc. I know it has suffered some bitrot on Solaris lately. According to the ghc homepage[1]: "NOTE: you must use GCC 2.95 or 3.4+ on Sparc. There is a known bug with GCC versions between 3.0-3.3 which causes incorrect code to be generated." Additionally, I think ghc 6.2.2 and 6.4.1 work correctly on Solaris, but not 6.4. Regards, Anders [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html#sparcsolaris _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
