On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > Here is an update, in case anyone else runs into the same problem. > > My understanding, is that the problem was caused by a mistake in the > "configure" script for the "network" package, which after (correctly) > detecting that IPv6 functionality was not available on my platform, it > (incorrectly) tried to "gain" this functionality by redefining the > version of my platform. Concretely, apparently I have "Windows Vista > Basic Home Edition", which seems to identify itself as version 0x400, > while the missing functions are only available on versions of windows > >= 0x501. > > My workaround was to: > 1. checkout the network package from the repository on code.haskell.com > 2. modify configure.ac to comment out the section where it sets the > windows version to 0x501 > 3. autoreconf > 4. build using the usual cabal way > Do you mind filing a bug at http://trac.haskell.org/network so we can track this problem and hopefully fix it in the future (I'm afraid someone with better Windows knowledge will have to do it)? Thanks, Johan
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