[darcs-users] Re: darcs only compiles on debian after debian package patch applied

[Timothy Webster]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:38:21 +0100
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:07:23AM -0500,
>  Timothy Webster <timw at outblaze.com> wrote 
>  a message of 35 lines which said:
> 
> > I would be nice if the stable darcs I get from darcs get
> > http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs/ would also compile
> > cleanly. :)
> 
> It works for me on a Debian sid/unstable with ghc6.
> 
> darcs get http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs/
> cd darcs
> autoreconf
> ./configure
> make

Again no luck

ghc  -cpp  -package unix -package parsec -O -funbox-strict-fields  -Wall -Werror -packageutil -I. -DHAVE_CURSES -DHAVE_CURL -c SlurpDirectory.lhs
Prologue junk?:         .type   scTD_ret, @function
scTD_ret:
        xorl    %eax, %eax
        xorl    %ecx, %ecx
        movl    %eax, 16(%esp)
        movl    %ecx, 20(%esp)

make: *** [SlurpDirectory.o] Error 255

ghc -v
Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.2.2, for Haskell 98, compiled by GHC version 6.2.1
Using package config file: /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/package.conf

gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.4/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm--enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-13)

I have been down this path before, 
for me the debian patch 
darcs_1.0.0.final-4.diff.gz
fixes things so I can compile cleanly.

thx Isaac for your fixes,
help me get the fixes in the darcs stable mainline

-tim.