[darcs-users] darcs head on Solaris issues.

[Karel Gardas]

Hello,

I've hacked latest darcs (actually what I had on disk from morning) by
recommended replace of getSymbolicLinkStatus -> getFileStatus (big
thanks to Greg Holtz for it!) and so darcs is running (at least kind of)
and allowed me to prepare Solaris buildbot for you. It's already
connected to Zooko's master and it seems it's already building for you. :-)

Hmm, developer side note: if we're not able to solve ghc's
getSymbolicLinkStatus issue, what about to workaround it directly in
darcs, create darcs' specific getSymbolicLinkStatus for Win32 (as it is
today), Solaris (with workaround) and then just plain "delegating"
getSymbolicLinkStatus which would use ghc's own getSymbolicLinkStatus?
Of course I 100% agree that nice clean patch for ghc's
getSymbolicLinkStatus would be the best...

Thanks,
Karel

Karel Gardas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm just trying darcs head (as of today) on Solaris (SXDE 1/08) and it
> seems the issues already reported here are still presented. No offens, I
> just would like to find out latest status of darcs2 on Solaris!
> 
> For your information, I've got darcs 2.0.0 compiled on Linux and used it
>  to grab the latest sources of darcs, move them to Solaris and give it a
> try. The issues are two:
> 
> 1) whatsnew in darcs repo produces:
> 
> karel at silence:/tmp/darcs.net$ ./darcs whatsnew
> 
> darcs failed:  Pattern match failure in do expression at
> src/Darcs/SlurpDirectory.lhs:404:14-24
> karel at silence:/tmp/darcs.net$
> 
> and
> 2) get and whatsnew -l produces:
> 
> karel at silence:/var/tmp/jjj$ /tmp/darcs.net/darcs get /tmp/darcs.net
> Copying patches, to get lazy repository hit ctrl-C...
> 
> darcs failed:  Unable to read directory /var/tmp/jjj/darcs.net (it
> appears to be neither file nor directory)
> karel at silence:/var/tmp/jjj$
> 
> ^ interesting is that this happens just after all the patches are copied.
> 
> karel at silence:/tmp/darcs.net$ ./darcs what -l
> 
> darcs failed:  Unable to read directory . (it appears to be neither file
> nor directory)
> karel at silence:/tmp/darcs.net$
> 
> 
> so I guess the issue with testing for symlinks is still presented. Is
> there any way how I might help with it?
> 
> Thanks!
> Karel
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