sync-all get failing

2013-08-02 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
./sync-all get is failing (see below). Any ideas? Simon bash-3.1$ ./sync-all get warning: ghc-tarballs already present; omitting == ghc-tarballs: running git config --local core.ignorecase true error: unknown option `local' usage: git config [options] Config file location --global

Ian leaving and the glorious future

2013-08-02 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Dear ghc-dev friends, Ian has now officially left Well Typed, so there now isn't anyone whose day job it is to respond to GHC bug mail, Trac tickets etc. Well Typed are hiring, and there will be someone new in due course, but until then there will be a hiatus. In general, this is part of what

Re: Need to pull Cabal revs from upstream repos over to GHC ones?

2013-08-02 Thread Richard Eisenberg
Thanks for the heads up. I did indeed not push libraries/Cabal, because I thought it would go along with pushing ghc. (I find git submodules to be rather confusing.) I've now pushed, but to darcs.haskell.org/srv/darcs/libraries/Cabal, which I believe is the same place. Please try again and let

Need to pull Cabal revs from upstream repos over to GHC ones?

2013-08-02 Thread Ryan Newton
Hi Richard, I think your commit "Update to Cabal to allow RoleAnnotations" needs one more fix that goes along with it. It looks like revision 5fa5c41cd9d2c9b4b543312af6919fe3d8588654 (at depth 4297) is currently pointed to by GHC's Cabal submodule. But those newer commits need to be pushed over

Re: Unit-testing of GHC code

2013-08-02 Thread Jan Stolarek
Thank you Ian - this indeed does the trick. But going a bit further I've encountered another problem. I need to run my computations in the Ghc session, because otherwise some actions fail with panic: CmmCopyPropagationTest: CmmCopyPropagationTest: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC versi