Eric:
I wish I had the bandwidth to update the port -- I'm not the port
maintainer, BTW. All I can do is submit patches and hope for the best.
My bandwidth is limited by the fact that I manage a computer systems
research department (yes, get the laugh in now -- a technically
engaged manager causes many people cognitive dissonance.)
Also, recent changes in the Haskell platform are what drives the
problem forward. Evidently, mmap 0.5.x is in the H-P, which drives an
interim patch to hashed-storage. Unless the H-P platform maintainer
for MacPorts bumps mmap back down to 0.4.x, the interim patch is a
necessary evil.
I'm sure that I could try out Darcs 2.4.4 and hope that it works with
hashed-storage 0.4.11 and mmap 0.5.x. But I don't think I'd get to
working on that until my next "research day off" next week.
Heck, if I were to prioritize, I'd be more inclined to get ghc 6.12 up
and running in MacPorts. That's a longer duration project. In the
meantime, though, my patch is a reasonable "BandAid (tm)" for those
who are stuck in the port upgrade outdated process due to a broken
hashed-storage upgrade.
-scooter
On Jun 18, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Eric Kow wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 13:38:17 -0700, Scott Michel wrote:
Here's the patch file, but keep in mind (a) you either need your own
local MacPorts hierarchy or need to be root/sudo when you apply it,
(b) if you apply it to the /opt/local or {prefix} devel/hs-hashed-
storage directory, it'll get overwritten the next time you update or
selfupdate.
Thanks for the work, Scooter!
I'm sure lots of folks appreciate actually being able to build Darcs
on
MacPorts, but I was wondering if you'd instead submitting an update to
get the port building on Darcs 2.4.4 (which requires a version of
hashed-storage that in turn requires mmap 0.4)?
From a maintenance standpoint, I think I'd be a bit more comfortable
with as much a stock Darcs as possible :-) Also darcs 2.4.4 fixes
some bugs in 2.4.1, see http://wiki.darcs.net/Releases/2.4
Note also that the upcoming Darcs 2.5 will require mmap-0.5
See also a related bug http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1753
Cheers,
Eric
PS. If I may do a bit of advertising, there's also an official OS X
binary on http://wiki.darcs.net/Binaries now
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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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