[darcs-users] darcs patch: Check for base package version in configure.

[Trent W. Buck]

Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:

> This patch (along with two others I have just sent) allows us to build
> darcs on GHC 6.10 the old-fashioned way (using the configure/make setup)
>
> The bad news is that we now get some failures in the test suite whenever
> we try to echo to darcs:
>
>    echo y | darcs unpull -p foo
>    Sat Nov  8 16:41:23 GMT 2008  x
>      * foo
>    Shall I unpull this patch? (1/1)  [ynWsfvpxdaqjk], or ? for help: darcs: <stdin>: hWaitForInput: end of file
>    
> I'm not sure where this is coming from, although by searching for hWaitForInput,

This is nearly a showstopper bug for me (as a user), because I use that
idiom all the time.  Probably instead of

    darcs foo <<<yyyd

I'll have to write

    printf %s\\n y y y d | darcs foo