[darcs-devel] Congrats: All Darcs-2 release-critical bugs resolved

[Jules Colding]

On 21/03/2008, at 14.53, David Roundy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:30:00PM +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
>>
>> On 21/03/2008, at 01.43, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>>> One bug I think deserves consideration for the 2.0 release is the
>>> failure to build on Windows. Our Windows/Cygwin buildbot continues  
>>> to
>>> fail consistently:
>>>
>>> http://darcs.net:8008/windows-cygwin/builds/39/step-compile/0
>
> I most definitely disagree on the importance of this.  This is a  
> platform
> that we've never supported building on, so this isn't a regression.
> Moreover, we've almost never gotten a build-failure report on  
> cygwin, so I
> suspect it's safe to say that there aren't hordes of potential darcs
> hackers just waiting for cygwin support so they can start  
> contributing.
>
> The problem on this buildbot seems to be that configure is picking  
> up the
> wrong gcc (not the one used by ghc) to run its tests, and thus is
> incorrectly succeeding, when libz isn't present to ghc.  It'd be  
> nice to
> fail earlier, but when the required libraries aren't properly  
> installed,
> there's no way that darcs will compile.
>
>>> And we just got a very similar bug report for a build failure on
>>> Vista:
>>> http://bugs.darcs.net/issue751
>
> So far as I can tell, this isn't a build failure report, but rather a
> problem with the precompiled binaries.
>
>>> On the other hand, if there haven't been Windows developers around  
>>> to
>>> fix such a basic issue in the last few weeks, perhaps we shouldn't
>>> expect them to appear soon to address it for a release.
>>
>> I'm not a haskell developer so unfortunately I don't think I can help
>> fixing the build failure on windows, but I really believe that it
>> should be. It is critical to all considering to use or already using
>> darcs for software that builds on multiple platforms. But that aside,
>> it seems like it is simply zlib that is missing so maybe I can do  
>> some
>> good anyway. I'll take a look at building darcs on Windows when I get
>> back to my office after the easter holidays (late next week).
>
> We'll definitely appreciate any help you can provide.  On the other  
> hand,
> we do have a contributor who is pretty regularly compiling darcs on
> windows, so I hope we'll hear about it if we break anything.

It would be great if he/she could run the buildbot.

BR,
   jules