By the way, we could put into the configure script a little test that checks for the buggy getSymbolicLinkStatus and works around it by just calling getFileStatus. I don't know if there are enough solaris systems out there to warrant this.
David On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Karel Gardas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > in recent weeks there was some ongoing discussion about darcs Solaris > support and about darcs issues related to the broken > getSymbolicLinkStatus GHC function on this mailing list. > > I've gone ahead and give a try to compile GHC (STABLE) myself. After 2 > days of failing attempts I've been successful. > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2263 > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2265 > > So now, I do have working GHC together with much better working darcs > head. As you can see here: > > > http://allmydata.org/buildbot-darcs/builders/karel/builds/11/steps/test/logs/stdio > > http://allmydata.org/buildbot-darcs/builders/karel/builds/11/steps/test_configure/logs/stdio > > a lot of tests are working, but it seems there are still some issues in > comparison with for example linux. > > So simple advice to all darcs/Solaris users is: recompile and install > GHC from its STABLE branch (future 6.8.3 release) > > Cheers, > Karel > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users > _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
